As I have continued my work in research and writing post-graduation, it has become more and more apparent to me just how difficult it is to be original. All it takes to research a topic is one Google search, and one had likely yielded hundreds of thousands, if not millions of materials with which to work.
In the museum field, I find myself asking why the research I yield has to be penned by me, when I can just cite my sources. Even worse,...
