It's One Big Circus

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.