The Furry Con Archives is a digital library and physical repository dedicated to preserving all convention history across furry, pony, and broader fan-run conventions. We collect, digitize, catalog, and provide open access to convention booklets, event schedules, pocket guides, zines, newsletters, maps, and rare ephemera so fans, organizers, and researchers can explore decades of convention culture.

Some people collect CDs, video games, or a very specific kind of vintage toy. Those hobbies look normal because the objects are already treated as valuable. Collecting furry convention materials is the same kind of special interest—just one that often gets called obsessive or strange because the stuff was printed to be disposable.

This archive is the public product of that interest. We digitize and share conbooks, zines, and related ephemera so they are not only sitting in someone else's drawer, landfill, or forgotten storage box. We cannot casually change what we care about. We can put that focus to work for the fandom.

We preserve all convention history, covering both printed publications and digital event records:

• Convention Booklets & Guides: Conbooks, souvenir programs, and pocket guides
• Event Schedules: Printed schedule grids and digital schedule exports from platforms such as Sched, Guidebook, and Consurf
• Publications & Ephemera: Newsletters, zines, hotel and room maps, badges, flyers, and official event announcements
• Physical Holdings: Original print copies cataloged and stored in The Vault

A convention booklet (conbook) and its accompanying schedule serve as the historical record of a specific convention weekend. Together, they document the event's theme, guest of honor biographies, charity milestones, panel programming, dealer and artist rosters, venue maps, and community artwork.

Because these materials are created for a single weekend and rarely reprinted—and because modern digital schedule apps frequently disappear after an event closes—preserving both the printed booklets and the schedule data ensures that each year's history remains complete.

You can explore the catalog in several ways:

• Full-Text & Title Search: Search across document titles, convention metadata, and OCR-extracted page text
• Browse by Convention: Explore individual conventions and their year-by-year timeline of booklets and events
• Schedules Directory: Browse archived convention schedules, panels, and room timelines
• The Vault: View our catalog of preserved physical copies and donor provenance

Yes. Every published document and schedule in the archive is free to browse online and download as a PDF, with no paywalls, ads, or subscriptions. View counts are tracked anonymously to help us understand which collections are used most.

We work with convention staff, collectors, and attendees in three ways:

• Digital files: Share original press-ready PDFs, high-resolution scans, or schedule exports (JSON, CSV, ICS).
• Physical contributions: Contribute single booklets, schedules, or archival copies to The Vault.
• Loan-to-digitize: Lend physical items temporarily for non-destructive scanning, after which we return the originals to you.

Contact us with what you have and we will coordinate the details.

We preserve convention materials noncommercially for historical documentation, research, scholarship, and education under Creative Commons licenses, direct organizer permissions, and U.S. copyright law (including fair use under 17 U.S.C. § 107 and archival principles under § 108). We never claim ownership over third-party art or writing.

Creators, convention organizers, and rights holders can request attribution updates, license changes, courtesy removals, or formal DMCA takedowns at [email protected]. See our Rights & Licensing and Preservation Policy pages for full details.

This archive is built as a durable community resource. If our team is ever unable to continue operating the project, our succession plan is to transfer the complete digital library, metadata catalog, and physical holdings to a trusted community archive or established historical organization so that preserved records remain accessible.

Community support helps cover server hosting, archival storage supplies, scanning equipment, and shipping for physical loans and contributions. If you would like to make a financial or in-kind contribution, please get in touch with us.

We operate strictly as a noncommercial, public-benefit archive, but we are not currently registered as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. As a result, financial or material contributions are not tax-deductible.