The paper aims to identify the areas for libraries’ attention towards developing understanding to keep pace with geographic information services with the subject progress and factors behind the gap. The paper has been built on narrative literature review on few selective segments related to GIS and library approaches. Authors collected articles from Web of Science and Google Scholar platform to scan evidence-based practices. The SANRA scale has been applied in the article and the approach was to find a framework for sharing academic libraries practices. All reviewed articles were rated based on 6 SANRA criteria and aspects as performed descriptive statistics analysis. The recent times have witnessed close collaboration between library service providers and geographic information users; both as information consumers and information developers. This aspect of library and information services requires attention in academic libraries to serve in the geographical disciplines users in many fold ways as this study impetrates speculations and notions of convolutions to both geographic subject information services outlook and milieu. Observations through SANRA scale analysis and thorough interpretations based on reviewed literature in this study are significant contributions to the relation of geography information tools and library services.

Keywords: Academic libraries; Geographic information systems; GIS; SANRA scale; Geography faculty; Geographic information (GI); Library services; Library tools.