志书具有“资治、存史、育人”的功能。要使志书更好地发挥其功能,读志用志必不可少。修志者必须强化服务意识,牢固树立修志为用的观念,把干部、群众读志用志的需要作为地方志工作的重点,这样才能拓展服务对象,使志书为社会各界所用,充分发挥志书的效益和功能。 The book has a “capital, history, education” function. To make the book better perform its function, it is indispensable to read it. The practitioners must strengthen their sense of service and firmly establish the notion of using it as a tool for self-improvement. They should take the needs of cadres and the masses in their efforts to read and use their ideals as the focus of their work so that they can expand their service targets and make them available to all sectors of society, Benefit and function.