Enjoy an Incredibly Flexible Conference Experience!

All of the Library Advocacy and Funding Conference (LAFCON) sessions are pre-recorded and there are a number of great reasons we’re doing this. We want this conference to be easy to attend for people anywhere in the United States or around the world. With all conference sessions available concurrently during the three days of the conference you can watch any session at any time on your own schedule. If you prefer to watch the conference sessions at noon or at midnight, that’s up to you! 

Accessibility Is Our Goal

It’s important to us that the conference is as accessible as possible. Through pre-recorded conference sessions, we can add closed captioning for the hearing impaired and for the convenience of attendees who are more visual learners. This is an international conference, so we are offering closed captioning in a number of languages to ensure more attendees will be able to participate in their native languages. Plus, by hosting all our programs on-demand, attendees around the world don’t have to view the conference at unreasonable hours or at times that conflict with work or studies. Our goal is to ensure that no one misses any of our great content.

A Smooth Virtual Conference Environment

We’re also trying to avoid technical or personal glitches that hamper many online conferences and that's why we're using the WHOVA conference platform. Our pre-recorded, on-demand sessions will minimize these technical glitches. We want your conference attendance experience to be  smooth and easy to navigate, so you can focus on the  high quality content.

We are offering three on-demand ways to experience the conference. First, anyone attending the conference can simply view the entire conference from beginning to end. Second, attendees can view the conference by “tracks”. For example, if you’re interested in learning digital organizing strategies, you can view all the sessions in the digital organizing track. Lastly, you can pick and choose any sessions you want to attend in any order. This means that you don’t have to sit through sessions that aren’t just right for you. You’ll be able to simply select the sessions that are most appealing to you and watch them at any time throughout the three days. If a session isn’t right for you, just find another!

Join us July 24-26, 2024 online - in your own timezone and on your own schedule - at the Library Advocacy and Funding Conference and enjoy unlimited access to over 100 high-impact presentations, panels, and sessions.

Check out these recently released sessions!

Constraining Possibilities: What's Really Driving the Culture Wars?

Book banning, education gag orders, attacks on libraries and public schools as institutions--behind all of these is an effort to roll back the civil rights gains of the last 50 years, reasserting racial and economic hierarchies and constraining... LEARN MORE

Earned Media

How to garner earned media for issue advocacy... LEARN MORE

Impact of Voter ID Laws and How Libraries Can Help All Eligible Voters Exercise their Freedom to Vote

In 2024, 38 states have voter ID laws. Many of these laws went into effect after the last presidential election. Voters who do not have an ID that will be accepted in their state will be disenfranchised. VoteRiders and Libraries can help ensure... LEARN MORE

Deep in the Heart of Texas: Parents Fighting Book Bans in the Lone Star State

Texas parents share stories and strategies they've used to endure and fight against book bans and censorship... LEARN MORE

Public Libraries as Civic Connectors

Public libraries serve as integral connection points for how patrons receive and engage with civic information. Learn more about how your library can create democracy-based programming, host candidate forums, or register individuals to vote... LEARN MORE