Convergence is defined as the intertwinement of species or technologies. Tech- logical convergence, on the other hand, refers to a trend where a single product such as a cell phone, used in the past solely for communication, evolves into a product that functions not only as a communication device but incorporates the distinct function- ities of a number of other technologies, thereby enabling users to take pictures, listen to music, access the Web, send and receive e-mail messages, find their way, and so on, equally successfully. Social networks such as Facebook, YouTube, MySpace and LinkedIn, where users congregate, discuss certain issues, entertain themselves, and share information in t- tual, audio and video formats, are among the most frequented web sites. Social networks having Web 2. 0 features offer personalized services, allowing users to - corporate their own content easily and describe, organize and share it with others, thereby enriching users' experience. More often than not, a capable cell phone is all you need to get access to such social networks and carry out all those tasks. Such tools tend to change our private, social and professional lives and blur the boundaries among them. In other words, our private, social and professional lives are converging, too: someone using a cell phone could be communicating with his/her friend(s), accessing information services, taking an exam using a learning management system, or conducting business.

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Convergence is defined as the intertwinement of species or technologies. Tech- logical convergence, on the other hand, refers to a trend where a single product such as a cell phone, used in the past solely for communication, evolves into a product that functions not only as a communication device but incorporates the distinct function- ities of a number of other technologies, thereby enabling users to take pictures, listen to music, access the Web, send and receive e-mail messages, find their way, and so on, equally successfully. Social networks such as Facebook, YouTube, MySpace and LinkedIn, where users congregate, discuss certain issues, entertain themselves, and share information in t- tual, audio and video formats, are among the most frequented web sites. Social networks having Web 2. 0 features offer personalized services, allowing users to - corporate their own content easily and describe, organize and share it with others, thereby enriching users experience. More often than not, a capable cell phone is all you need to get access to such social networks and carry out all those tasks. Such tools tend to change our private, social and professional lives and blur the boundaries among them. In other words, our private, social and professional lives are converging, too: someone using a cell phone could be communicating with his/her friend(s), accessing information services, taking an exam using a learning management system, or conducting business.

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Technological Convergence and Social Networks.- My Information: Digital Libraries, Social Networking, and the User Experience.- The Implications of Information Democracy and Digital Socialism for Public Libraries.- Collaboration through Communities of Practice in the Digital Age.- Let Me Tell You Something about (Y)our Culture?.- Digital Natives and Specialised Digital Libraries: A Study of Europeana Users.- Academic Libraries and Information Literacy in the Digital Age.- Impact of Recent Trends in Information and Communication Technology on the Validity of the Construct Information Literacy in Higher Education.- Exploring the Competency of Academic Library Staff Engaging in Emerging Services.- Programming New Learning Spaces: The Changing Nature of Academic Library Buildings.- The Role of Information Literacy in Environmental Scanning as a Strategic Information System - A Study of Singapore SMEs.- Information Management and Digital Rights Challenges.- Using Internet Services for Personal Information Management.- New Approach for Automated Categorizing and Finding Similarities in Online Persian News.- An Evaluation of TS13298 in the Scope of MoReq2.- Identification of User Patterns in Social Networks by Data Mining Techniques: Facebook Case.- Digital Rights Challenges in a World of Technological Convergence.- Copyright Issues Related to the Digitization of Cultural Heritage in Croatia.- Information Systems and Bibliometrics.- Performance Evaluation of Web Information Systems.- Information Science and Cognitive Psychology: A Theoretical Approach.- Visualizing the Structure of Scientific Output of Iranian Scholars in Science Citation Index (SCI) during 2000-2006.- A Study on Scientific Product of the University of Tehran in Web of Science Database during 1989 2009.- Contribution of Turkish Scholars to Earthquake Literature: The Impact of the Marmara Earthquake.