The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) is a research institute that promotes and conducts scholarly research on Southeast Asia (especially Indonesia), the South Seas and the Caribbean (especially Suriname, Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles), including in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, history and social sciences. The KITLV Library includes a large collection of books, periodicals, documentation, photographs, archives and audiovisual materials.