MEMBER BENEFITS IT professionals join the ACS because membership of the Society helps to keep knowledge up-to-date in a rapidly changing environment, it adds practical skills to their existing skills, it challenges their ideas and concepts, it enables them to participate in peer group activities, and it provides opportunities for extending their professional contacts and networks. The Society engages in a wide range of activities both at the Branch and National level giving members the opportunity to participate (at concessional rates) in conferences, seminars, workshops, meetings and other activities, to enhance their knowledge, exchange information, and hear from leading figures in the IT sector. Each member receives a monthly magazine, informatics providing information on the latest developments in IT, and the quarterly Australian Computer Journal, a journal of record and research papers. Members also receive the publications of their local Branch.