評述《嘉義縣志》四部收錄藝文的方志

Commentary 'Chiayi County Gazetteer' four Art and Literature Gazetteer

〈藝文志〉在方志中舉足輕重，本文因此乃以縣志中的〈藝文志〉做為主要考察對象。方志內容浩瀚繁雜，為暸解〈藝文志〉的演進史，及持平觀察〈藝文志〉之內容，乃從現存先秦以降的歷代史籍，以觀察中國古代對於「藝文」之釋義、史〈藝文志〉和方志〈藝文志〉之面向，再對戰後嘉義縣歷次黨修縣志中，凡收錄藝文的方志，皆逐一進行梳理，並據以觀察其內容與架構，或藉分析徵引資料、圖表示己、收錄人數和採訪基修人員等，以期正確地掌握新修《嘉義縣志》〈文學志〉、〈藝術志〉做合理的論述，期能為臺灣文學史料之研究，略盡棉薄之力。

As the 'Art and Literature Gazetteer'Plays a decisive role in the gazetteer,the major studying object will be the arts and cultures of the county gazetteer. However,contents of a gazetteer is immense and diverse that to understand the processing history of 'Art and Literature Gazetteer' and to observe its contents fair-mindedly, we examine the definitions,phases of 'arts and literature'in official history and gazetteer from the existing historical records of Qin Dynasty in ancient China until the present before we investigate gzaetteer of arts and literature in Chiayi Counties.