Broken users or broken system?

Some time ago a librarian blogger chastised users in this case a PhD student) for not using Medline properly and not wanting to be inducted into the complexities of the Medline interface. Here is some more evidence if it were needed that librarians need to adapt their systems to user needs. It will still be possible to return high quality data sets to Google style interrogations of Medline - it just takes a bit more effort, which begins by not wishing users would become au fait with the complexities of MeSH headings and Boolean queries.

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