Research and Resources

General Orientation
To contribute to a better understanding and awareness of Lasallian identity in order to serve better the Lasallian mission.

Objectives
The service involves two dimensions which can be distinguished without being separated:

Research

1. To deepen knowledge of the Lasallian tradition in its diverse dimensions: historic, theological, spiritual and pedagogical.
2. To establish links and further relationships with Lasallian researchers and places of research.
3. To promote new research and identify and form future researchers, both Brothers and other Lasallians, especiallywith regard to the origins of the Institute.
4. To create occasions for the exchange of viewpoints and ideas between researchers.
5. To promote the publication and circulation of the work of the researchers.

Resources

1. To preserve, restore, and enhance the historic patrimony situated at the Center of the Institute: Archives, Museum, and Library.
2. To ensure the availability of resources to better serve the understanding of the Lasallian heritage.
3. To take responsibility for spreading the Lasallian heritage.

Lines of Action

1. To produce new works on the different dimensions of the Lasallian heritage by both members of the service and the expertise of outside researchers.
2. To identify future researchers, Brothers and other Lasallians, with particular attention to young Brothers.
3. To organize seminars and workshops to promote exchanges of ideas and viewpoints among researchers on specific subjects.
4. To establish contacts and maintain links with Lasallian and other university centers.
5. To publish the researchers’ work in various formats: books and DVD’s and giving it as wide a distribution as possible.
6. With regard to archived documents or collected Lasallian works:
   - to continue to look after their classification
   - to facilitate access to them
   - to make known their existence and their contents: circulating information, writing letters, organizing visits and meetings
   - to work on the reorganization of the Archives and the Library of the Generalate
   
7. To organize or participate in the formation of Brothers and other Lasallians such as an International Session of Lasallian Studies (SIEL).

Publicaciones

• Lasallian Journals (Cahiers lasalliens)
• Lasallian Studies (Études lasalliennes)
• Lasallian Themes (Essais lasalliennes)
• Essais Lasalliens
• Complete works of St. John Baptist de La Salle
• Various articles and research papers
• Digital Magazine

Membership
The tasks of this service are ensured by a team led by a Coordinating Secretary. The Coordinating Secretary is assisted by the members of the Service and an International Council.

Br. Diego A. Muñoz León –
Coordinating Secretary- Head of the Research Department

Br. Francis Ricousse –
Head of the Resources Department

Br. Pierre Petitjean –
Head of Publications and Museum

Sister Odette Mukayigire, Assistant

The Service of Lasallian Research and Resources is assisted by an International Council made up of the Coordinating Secretary, the Head of the Research Department, the Head of the Resources Department and of members named from each Region of the Institute.

Br. Claude Reinhardt, General Councilor, accompanies this Service.