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Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the topic in mind, different dimensions of the issue were firstly identified through reviewing the research literature. Then, the Delphi panel was formed and the factors and indices for choosing and prioritizing the libraries were extracted and finally the analytic-hierarchy and Topsis method was used for analyzing and ranking the data which were collected through a questionnaire. In this way, the instrument was devised by the researcher and the population under the study consisted of the professors in two fields of LIS and the GIS. The criteria include the \u201caccess to the library\u201d, \u201cbeing active\u201d, \u201cthe number of sources\u201d, \u201cthe size and space of the place\u201d, \u201cthe library equipment\u201d, \u201ccompatibility\u201d each one include eight, seven, five, five, two and five factors, respectively. <\/jats:p>\n            <\/jats:sec>\n            <jats:sec>\n               <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title>\n               <jats:p> \u2013 In the Delphi study, six factors including 32 indices were determined for prioritizing the libraries to implement the GIS in the library researches. The analytic-hierarchy method was applied to compare the factors correspondingly in terms of the degree of their significance. In this way, \u201caccess to the library sources\u201d, \u201cbeing active\u201d, \u201cthe number of sources\u201d, \u201cthe size and space of the place\u201d, \u201cthe library equipment\u201d and \u201ccompatibility\u201d were identified as the factors on choosing the library type with the values of 0.39, 0.24, 0.16, 0.08, 0.07 and 0.06, respectively. Then, several types of the libraries were ranked and the findings show that academic libraries are prioritized as the first one for conducting the GIS projects. <\/jats:p>\n            <\/jats:sec>\n            <jats:sec>\n               <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title>\n               <jats:p> \u2013 Employing the factors resulted from the conducted researches is recommended for choosing the libraries to implement the GIS, so that the researches in this interdisciplinary field become more organized. To extend the current study, the extracted factors and indices can be sent to the professors of the LIS from the other countries to elicit their insights and thereby, designing a standard international checklist for choosing the libraries and information centers in the GIS projects.<\/jats:p>\n            <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/el-05-2013-0092","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,3,28]],"date-time":"2015-03-28T21:41:10Z","timestamp":1427578870000},"page":"181-195","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["The factors and criteria for prioritization of GIS utilization by 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