RICHFORD, VT — The library was already closed when the message came through.

Colette Aubin-Roy, who manages the Richford Public Library, had several weeks ago quietly photographed the building's community board and sent the images to a McGill student collective working on a documentary series. Their reply arrived Monday evening. She read it at home. The message, sent to the library's general contact address, was brief. The collective described her photographs, in their entirety, as "more than we expected and exactly what we needed."

They did not say how the images would be used, or whether they would appear in the final episode of Nous Sommes RONA / We Are RONA at all.

"It's one I need to sit with overnight," Aubin-Roy said when reached by telephone. She was choosing her words carefully — the way people do when they don't quite trust themselves to explain something yet. She has not decided whether to print the message and pin it to the board whose photographs she sent.

The community board at the Richford library — layered with notices, hand-lettered announcements, and whatever someone thought was worth sharing — was never designed for close examination. That a collective of students in Montreal, building a documentary about what this young country is and who lives in it, looked at those photographs and said this is what we needed is not nothing. Aubin-Roy knows that. She has not yet decided what to do with the note.