FOR RESEARCH SUPERVISOR LOUISE GUY, WORKING AT THE CIRQUE DU SOLEIL IS A FINE COMBINATION OF BUSINESS AND THE ARTS.
Louise Guy
Joined SLA: 1999
Job: Supervisor, Center for Research and Documentation
Employer: Cirque du Soleil
Experience:
Education: Bachelor's in Arts and Sciences and master's in Library and Information Science
First job: Assistant Librarian
Biggest challenge: To mobilize work teams in contexts of rapid change.
Guy Laliberte is the founder of Cirque du Soleil, the internationally renowned billion-dollar entertainment corporation. Nearly 25 years ago, Laliberte was a Montreal street performer who had the opportunity to utilize a $1.3 million public grant to develop a show that would participate in Quebec City's 450th anniversary celebrations in 1984 throughout the province. The result was Cirque du Soleil-and it was to be unlike any other circus the world had known.