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Full Issue. Contents: ARTICLES: 1. The GAA Library and Archive / Mark Reynolds - 2. From MLIS students to LIS professionals: combining research with professional development and career planning in graduate education / Claire McGuinness & Kalpana Shankar - 3. Healthy Ireland at Your Library / Sheila Kelly - CONFERENCE REPORTS: 1. Performance Measurement in Libraries Conference 2017 / Mary Dunne - 2. [R]evolution: Re-imagining the Art Library ARLIS UK & IRELAND Conference 2017 / Andrea Lydon - 3. Proving our worth: Evidence and Data in Acquisitions National Acquisitions Conference (NAG) Conference, 2017 / Gillian Kerins - 4. Let?s Work Together: marketing, partnership and collaboration in the Public Library Communities LAI Public Libraries Conference / Evelyn Cooley & Laura Sinnott - REVIEW ARTICLES: 1. Fundamentals of electronic resources management, Alana Verminski and Kelly Marie Blanchat. Book review I. / Amye Quigley - 2. Marketing Your Library?s Electronic Resources: A How-To-Do-It Manual For Librarians, Marie R. Kennedy and Cheryl LaGuardia. Book review II. / Mark Ward - 3. Librarian as Communicator: Case Studies and International Perspectives Edited by Helen Fallon and Graham Walton. Book review III. / Eimear Evans - OBITUARY: 1. Kathleen O?Rourke, Wexford County Librarian 1971-1996 / Fionnuala Hanrahan - NEWS from the STACKS / Marjory Sliney.

This Special Issue of the Journal of Operations Management consists of 16 articles by 26 authors covering Operations Managements (OM) topics and issues from the 16th century to the 21st with predictions for the future. While it does not pretend to be comprehensive, it is representative of the types of subjects of inquiry through out this historical period in what could be considered OM. This introduction attempts to put the papers in context, and concludes with comments about what might be considered fundamental concepts which, taken as a set, can be seen as the foundations of Operations Management today.

Using wind speeds and sea ice fields from the EC-Earth global climate model to run the WAVEWATCH III model, we investigate the changes in the wave climate of the northeast Atlantic by the end of the 21st century. Changes in wave climate parameters are related to changes in wind forcing both locally and remotely. In particular, we are interested in the behavior of large-scale atmospheric oscillations and their influence on the wave climate of the North Atlantic Ocean. Knowing that the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is related to large-scale atmospheric circulation, we carried out a correlation analysis of the NAO pattern using an ensemble of EC-Earth global climate simulations. These simulations include historical periods (1980–2009) and projected changes (2070–2099) by the end of the century under the RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) forcing scenarios with three members in each RCP wave model ensemble. In addition, we analysed the correlations between the NAO and a range of wave parameters that describe the wave climate from EC-Earth driven WAVEWATCH III model simulation over the North Atlantic basin, focusing on a high resolution two-way nested grid over the northeast Atlantic. The results show a distinct decrease by the end of the century and a strong positive correlation with the NAO for all wave parameters observed.