RICHFORD, Vermont — When all three of Richford Public Library's offline media cards came back within a single week — each loaded with the first three episodes of the documentary series Nous Sommes RONA / We Are RONA — staff member Colette Aubin-Roy took it as a clear enough signal. She sourced three additional blank cards from the library's existing digital literacy supply budget, loaded them with Episodes One through Three, and placed them behind the lending desk. They will be available beginning Thursday morning with a standard one-week loan period. No new line items, no committee approval required.

Aubin-Roy described the cost as negligible — which, in a small Franklin County town like Richford, is precisely the kind of resource stewardship that keeps small libraries running. She is also weighing whether Episode Two, the installment that follows daily life in Montreal's francophone neighbourhoods, might warrant a particular push to residents in French-dominant households. Richford sits close enough to the Quebec border that French is a working language on its streets, and a documentary that looks carefully at Montreal's place in the new republic is, for many residents, something closer to a family portrait than a civics lesson.