Designed to foster imaginative teaching, the Teaching Materials Center (TMC) is open to all teachers, homeschooling parents, and other adults from the community, in addition to Southern Adventist University students, faculty, and staff. A community membership is available at a fee for those not associated with the university. The Center houses more than 15,000 curriculum guides, textbooks, teachers' resources, literature for children and young adults, VHS and DVD videos, CDs, educational games and activities, as well as many artifacts from around the world. Journals and magazines about teaching are available for reference. Patrons can borrow posters and pictures from the TMC's bulletin board files or cut shapes and letters with dies from a large collection of die cuts. The TMC's work center makes preparing bulletin boards and other teaching materials easy.