The departments of NicoNet
The Collections. Same archive. More hallways.
STORIES ◇ PHOTOGRAPHS ◇ QUESTIONABLE INSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
Pick a department.
Departmental records now open
Maritime Affairs Collection 01 NicoNet Department Collection 01
Collection 01 Maritime Affairs Water is officially disliked. The photographic record is less cooperative.
He hates water. The evidence remains unhelpfully complicated.
STATUS Open collection
SUBJECT Nico Bear
FORMAT Stories & photographs
ACCESS Public
Enter Maritime Affairs → Expeditions & Field Work Collection 02 NicoNet Department Collection 02
Collection 02 Expeditions & Field Work Forests, stumps, snow, lookouts and the serious business of going outside.
Forests, trails, stumps and work performed without a timesheet.
STATUS Open collection
SUBJECT Nico Bear
FORMAT Stories & photographs
ACCESS Public
Enter Expeditions & Field Work → Seating Authority Collection 03 NicoNet Department Collection 03
Collection 03 Seating Authority A chair is simply a Nico platform with unnecessary design features.
Furniture ownership becomes theoretical once Nico sits down.
STATUS Open collection
SUBJECT Nico Bear
FORMAT Stories & photographs
ACCESS Public
Enter Seating Authority → Inter-Canine Relations Collection 04 NicoNet Department Collection 04
Collection 04 Inter-Canine Relations Friends, fellow travellers, couch partners and co-conspirators.
Friends, colleagues, couch partners and diplomatic incidents.
STATUS Open collection
SUBJECT Nico Bear
FORMAT Stories & photographs
ACCESS Public
Enter Inter-Canine Relations → Domestic Operations Collection 06 NicoNet Department Collection 06
Collection 06 Domestic Operations The blankets, couches, car rides and ordinary systems that made a home.
Blankets, naps, car rides and the systems that make a home.
STATUS Open collection
SUBJECT Nico Bear
FORMAT Stories & photographs
ACCESS Public
Enter Domestic Operations → Official Portraiture Collection 07 NicoNet Department Collection 07
Collection 07 Official Portraiture The photographs where the light, focus, background and dog all briefly agree.
Occasions when the camera managed to keep up with the subject.
STATUS Open collection
SUBJECT Nico Bear
FORMAT Stories & photographs
ACCESS Public
Enter Official Portraiture → Botanical Honours Collection 08 NicoNet Department Collection 08
Collection 08 Botanical Honours Flowers over the ear and other decorations bestowed without consultation.
Flowers over the ear and honours bestowed without consultation.
STATUS Open collection
SUBJECT Nico Bear
FORMAT Stories & photographs
ACCESS Public
Enter Botanical Honours → Special Investigations Collection 09 NicoNet Department Collection 09
Collection 09 Special Investigations Evidence for which the Archive has a photograph but no normal filing policy.
Files that resist ordinary classification.
STATUS Open collection
SUBJECT Nico Bear
FORMAT Stories & photographs
ACCESS Public
Enter Special Investigations → Filed, Not Forgotten Collection 10 NicoNet Department Collection 10
Collection 10 Filed, Not Forgotten Some records resist classification. Others simply refuse to be left out.
The permanent home for photographs that never found a comfortable departmental drawer, but were far too important, funny, handsome or inexplicable to disappear into storage.
STATUS Open collection
SUBJECT Nico Bear
FORMAT Unclassifiable evidence
ACCESS Public
Enter Filed, Not Forgotten → Access restrictions remain in effect
Closed Archives Not every door in NicoNet opens for the public.
Closed archive · clearance required Snack Intelligence Directorate Records concerning Nacks, dried liver, cod skin and unauthorized food acquisition remain restricted.
NCA Closed archive · clearance required Personnel & Internal Affairs Certain household relationships and performance reviews are not available for public release.
NCA Closed archive · clearance required Incidents We Are Not Prepared to Discuss A small number of records have been withheld following consultation with counsel.
NCA “The archive does not ask whether an event was important. It asks whether Nico was there.” Institutional standards manual, probably
Complete photographic record → NicoNet Classified Records Division
Restricted Archive
ACCESS: DENIEDInsufficient clearance
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