評述《嘉義縣志》四部收錄藝文的方志

〈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，為瞭解〈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、正史〈藝文志〉和方志〈藝文志〉之面向，再對戰後嘉義縣歷次纂修縣志中，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、圖表紀、收錄人數和採訪纂修人員等，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。

關鍵字

方志；藝文志；文學志；藝術志；嘉義縣志；新修嘉義縣志

並列摘要

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 gazetteer of arts and literature in Chiayi Counties. Then, we comb out the records gathered in all previous postwar Chiayi gazetteer compiling one by one to study their contents and structures, or to accurately master the compiling of arts and literature gazetteer of Chiayi Counties through analyzing citied materials, chart rules, collected number of people and compiling team members in order to make reasonable statements for the features and values of gazetteer of arts and literature of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County .