Donald Robert Beagle

Donald Beagle

Professor Emeritus

Belmont Abbey College

Donald Beagle received his master’s degree in information and library studies from the University of Michigan in 1977, where he won the Hopwood Writing Award. He worked for ten years in Charleston, South Carolina, first as Regional Library Branch Head and then Head of the Main Library in downtown Charleston. In 1997, he moved to the University of North Carolina Charlotte as Associate University Librarian & Head of the Information Commons. In 2000, he accepted the position of Professor/ Director of Library Services at Belmont Abbey College. Donald Beagle was designated Professor Emeritus upon his retirement in 2023. He has written 54 published articles and seven books, including three poetry collections published by LP Press@Wake Forest University. In addition to the Hopwood Award, Beagle has won the John Brubaker Writing Award (2011), and the Gail O’Day Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry from Wake Forest University (2019).