Art Plotnik, former editor of American Libraries and editorial director of ALA Editions, died August 28 in Chicago. He was 82. Before joining ALA in 1975, Plotnik earned his MSLS at Columbia University in New York City, wrote pulp fiction, and served as a newsletter editor in the Librarian’s Office of the Library of Congress. Plotnik wrote eight nonfiction books and the 2019 YA novel Aaron Schmink’s First Crazy Love. He also taught in the journalism department at Columbia College in Chicago and was a charter board member of the American Book Awards. Many of his former colleagues at ALA, where he worked until 1997, shared their memories.