This paper focuses on three projects centered on Franco-Manitoban novelist Gabrielle Roy’s archive : an exhibition at Library and Archives Canada, an album, and a web site based on the virtual community concept. Depending on the overall purpose of the project (political or institutional, encouragement to read or reread the novels, dialogue between researchers and readers), the archive is in each case used, and reconstructed, with a unique approach. The networking of Roy’s archive certainly results in the development of new collaborative models based upon a participatory process, but it brings up questions about the sustainability of digital publications.