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Natasha Allen

Interim Director, Automation, Indexing, and Metadata

Automation, Indexing, and Metadata · Library Information Technology and Technical Services

Smiling woman with light colored skin, peach colored lips, dark hair with bright pink highlights, and wearing a black shirt.

Pronouns

she/her/hers

Email

ndallen@umich.edu

Mailing address

319 Hatcher North

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190

Natasha Allen

Interim Director, Automation, Indexing, and Metadata

Automation, Indexing, and Metadata · Library Information Technology and Technical Services

About me

Dia duit! My work is project-based, and varies from day to day. I support my library colleagues by managing various aspects of our Library Services Platform, Alma, including troubleshooting tickets that come in through our ticketing system TeamDynamix. Issues I support often relate to fulfillment, record and user loads, metadata, report generation, and user management. My main professional interest is in effective, sustainable IT project management. I believe in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. I believe in kindness, critical thinking, and being accountable to one's words and actions when they cause harm to others. I believe these are values that should be evident in everything we do, and should be boxes to check off to meet someone else's arbitrary set of standards. I am a member of the SACUA Information Technology Committee (ITC).

In my free time, I enjoy attending Tigers baseball games with my spouse, running after my retired racing greyhound and our 3 cats. I also enjoy sewing, making collage artwork, leatherworking, writing poetry, and writing music with my band. I collect local music memorabilia, particularly memorabilia related to underground DIY music in the punk, screamo, hardcore, and metal subgenres. I'm studying Irish (Gaeilge) and looking for active conversation partners. 

Ask me about playing Gaelic sports! I play with the Cleveland Saints Camogie (kah-MOH-ghee) team, Detroit St. Anne's Gaelic Football, and at local co-ed hurling practices.

Languages

English, Irish