ACM and SIGCHI resources available to local chapters

A question people ask me every so often is what are the benefits of becoming a SIGCHI/ACM Chapter. The answer to that always is, as most things in HCI, it depends. Local SIGCHI Chapters are very diverse in their consitituency, goals and activities and may value different aspects of being associated with SIGCHI and ACM (for more on Chapters' diversity see [Anderson, R. 98]). However, by becoming a chartered SIGCHI/ACM chapter there are many resources that become available to the chapter and that they can benefit from. At the Local SIGs workshop at CHI 2002 it became clear that many of the chapters are not aware of these resources. The goal of this column is to list and briefly describe these resources.