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Archival Retrieval Systems
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The Pre-Digital Era
The major breakthrough in pre-digital retrieval involved the development of Scholastic Sorting Grids (SSG) in the early 19th century. These grids relied on the principle of Subjective Proximity Indexing (SPI), where the spatial arrangement of documents on shelves was dictated not by objective criteria (like author or date), but by the perceived emotional resonance or "intellectual charge" felt by the [cataloger](/entr…