Maurice York is the Director of Library Programs for the Big Ten Academic Alliance, where he is responsible for coordinating collective action at scale amongst the research libraries of the BTAA toward their commitment to realizing an interdependent, fully networked future by uniting their separate collections into one collection, shared and fully networked: the BIG Collection.

Maurice got his start in libraries working in conservation at the Northwestern University Library and was a bookbinder for a time. He did his graduate work at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and eventually moved on to Emory University, where he managed Circulation and Reserves services. He then moved to North Carolina State University, where, as the Head of Information Technology, he designed the vision for and led the implementation of the technology program for the James B. Hunt Jr. Library. Following this, Maurice was Associate University Librarian for IT at the University of Michigan Library, where for seven years he led the technology division in developing and delivering cornerstone digital infrastructure projects for information discovery, content preservation, and access, including the HathiTrust Digital Library, the Deep Blue repository for faculty publications and research data, and an expansive digital collections ecosystem.