Practices and doctrines — box 2 of 141

• MS 2766.49 Acquisition

  Acquisition is the professional discipline and practice of obtaining uncatalogued subjects, ensuring their provenance, and initiating their …

• MS 5726.04 Acquisition Agent

  Acquisition Agent (commonly known as a "Field Agent" or simply "Agent") is a commissioned officer of the Bureau of Acquisition, operating un…

• MS 4406.67 Acquisition Scribes

  Acquisition Scribes are a specialized cadre of the Scribes' Guild of the Middle Floors responsible for the creation and validation of acquis…

• MS 7250.29 Acquisition and Deaccessioning

  The protocols of Acquisition and Deaccessioning constitute the primary circulatory and excretory systems of the Tower's archival corpus. Acq…

• MS 3874.70 Active Floor

  An Active Floor is a volumetric tier within the Tower that has been formally commissioned for cataloguing by the Bureau of Appointments and …

• MS 2154.27 Active vs. Passive Holding

  Active vs. Passive Holding is the foundational taxonomic distinction governing the status of all catalogued entities within The Tower. It de…

• MS 4027.06 Adaptivist School

  “No text, artifact, or procedure contains its own instructions for reading. What we call a holding’s nature is merely the sum of our current…

• MS 0603.30 Additive Non-Linearity

  Additive Non-Linearity refers to the tendency of certain phenomena within The Tower to amplify in magnitude or complexity not through gradua…

• MS 1487.69 Adhesive Silence

  Adhesive silence is a specialized adhesive compound employed exclusively for the hermetic sealing of Memory Caskets. It is classified under …

• MS 4994.66 Adjacent Unrealities

  Adjacent Unrealities are a classificatory designation within the Tower's archival taxonomy, denoting unreal subjects whose provisional ontol…

• MS 3240.43 Adjudication of Taxonomic Violations

  The Adjudication of Taxonomic Violations constitutes the formal process by which breaches of established classification and cataloguing prot…

• MS 4248.71 Adjudication of Void Taxonomies

  The necessity for a distinct adjudicative process stems from the foundational principle of The Primacy of the Void, which holds that voids a…

• MS 1640.50 Administrative Caste

  The Administrative Caste is a theoretical construct within the Tower's classification systems, representing the hypothetical totality of all…

• MS 3513.81 Administrative Inclusion

  Administrative Inclusion refers to the formal, procedural act by which an entity, concept, protocol, or domain is recognized as constituting…

• MS 3968.84 Administrative Law

  Administrative Law is the branch of Tower Law governing the establishment, operation, and dissolution of official bodies, the exercise of de…

• MS 1075.39 Administrative Longhand

  Administrative Longhand is a mandatory, formalized cursive script used exclusively for the inscription of General Administrative Protocols, …

• MS 2667.35 Administrative Mendings

  Administrative Mendings refers to the officially sanctioned practice of physically restoring, annotating, or recontextualizing damaged or su…

• MS 4717.25 Administrative Nihilism

  Administrative Nihilism is a philosophical and practical stance within The Tower that rejects the ontological necessity of administration it…

• MS 3845.30 Administrative Realism

  Administrative Realism is the prevailing ontological and procedural doctrine within the Tower, which holds that an entity's substantive real…

• MS 5550.44 Administrative School

  Administrative School refers to any recognized body of theory and practice dedicated to the formal interpretation and application of the Tow…

Arrangement within a series is by title. Box numbers describe the present arrangement and are not a permanent feature of the holding.