《萃编》是专史目录之外史志目录的总汇,汇集历代正史、国史艺文经籍志以及相关考证与补撰之作。它的出版标志着中国目录学史上的一件大事,在文献学史上具有里程碑意义。艺文志、经籍志,是一种存在于正史、国史、专史及地方志中的目录体裁,是史书、方志中对典籍和学术予以关照并直观反映的一种书目著作形式。所谓正史,即二十四史。或加《新元史》,成二十五史。《二十五史艺文经籍志考补萃编》(以下简称《萃编》)从二十五史的角度建构史志目录的完整体系,其 “Extract” is the confluence of Shishi catalogs outside the directory of special history, bringing together the history books of ancient history, the history books of Yi nationality, and related textual research and compilation. Its publication marks a major event in the history of Chinese bibliography and a landmark in the history of bibliography. Yiwenzhi and Jingjizhi are catalog genres existing in the history, national history, special history and local history. They are the form of bibliographies in which history books and local records reflect on books and academic studies and are directly reflected. The so-called official history, that is, twenty-four history. Or add “Xin Yuan Shi”, into twenty-five history. “The Twenty-Five History of Art,” according to the records compiled by the supplement “(hereinafter referred to as” Extracts ") from the perspective of twenty-five history to build a complete system of the history of the contents of the