This edited volume provides perceptions on various creative ideas and applications in academic libraries. This volume is hub of the opinion of researchers, librarians, information professionals, publishers and library users in India. This volume provides an outstanding overview of creative librarianship especially in academic libraries. Librarianship describes profession which concerned with acquiring and organizing collections of books and related materials in libraries and servicing readers. Creativity within the libraries can happen at the individual, the group, users, or stakeholder's level. Individuals with a creative bent can be a fountain of ideas if encouraged by those around them because of experiences. The users creativity can be an exciting experience will helps to restructuring the concepts of information sources and services. The user opinion and their judgements are always helps to improve and construct their ideas. The user's recommendations and creativity could be accomplished to the top library administrators to embrace and encourage the users. These creative ideas and their suggestions always help to construct the creative librarianship in academic libraries. In these circumstances the editors were collected 36 papers from Library and Information Science Professionals from the National level and titled on Creative Librarianship: Restructuring User Experience. Contents are edited suitably in order to appreciate the professionals. This edited volume consists of 36 papers from Library and Information Science Professionals under four themes such as, i) Open Educational Resources, ii) Social Networking Tools, iii) Management of Resources and Service and iv) User Experience and Studies in Libraries.

Dr. S. Dhanavandan, is working as Deputy Librarian at Central University of Tamil Nadu,
Thiruvarur-610005. Tamil Nadu. He serves twenty three years in the LIS profession. He has
guided Six Ph.D scholars and Doctoral Committee member in various Universities in Tamil
Nadu. He has published more than 145 articles in National and International Journals and
more than 175 papers presented and published in National and International Conferences.
And he authored more than 40 books in Library and Information Science and 60 Chapters
published in edited books. He has attended more than 50 Seminars/Workshops and training
programmes. And he adjudicated many Ph.D theses of various universities in Tamil Nadu. He
served as Chairperson and resource person in many workshop and conferences and also he
organized more than 17 workshop and conferences.