University of Leeds

Library Search (Ex Libris Alma / Primo) — tenancy

RELATIONSHIP, NOT A CONTRACT. University of Leeds Libraries discovery and resource management run on the Ex Libris Alma library services platform with the Primo discovery layer. The tenancy is a real institutional fact — the collection, the holdings and the patron data are Leeds'. The interface is not: Alma and Primo REST and SRU APIs are Ex Libris' engineering, documented on the Ex Libris Developer Network, and keys are issued by Ex Libris to the institution. No Ex Libris specification is stored in this repository and none should be; it belongs in the Ex Libris profile. Leeds publishes no public developer documentation for these endpoints.

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https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1100/search-resources

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https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/alma/apis/

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-leeds:library-discovery-primo
name: Library Search (Ex Libris Alma / Primo) — tenancy
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: Discovery runs at leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com with view id 44LEE_INST — an institution-
  specific view on a vendor-operated platform, on the vendor's registrable domain. The 2026-06-03 profile
  carried a library.leeds.ac.uk humanURL on this entry, which made a vendor tenancy read as institution-owned
  to a host-based verdict. Corrected 2026-08-30.
description: 'RELATIONSHIP, NOT A CONTRACT. University of Leeds Libraries discovery and resource management
  run on the Ex Libris Alma library services platform with the Primo discovery layer. The tenancy is a
  real institutional fact — the collection, the holdings and the patron data are Leeds''. The interface
  is not: Alma and Primo REST and SRU APIs are Ex Libris'' engineering, documented on the Ex Libris Developer
  Network, and keys are issued by Ex Libris to the institution. No Ex Libris specification is stored in
  this repository and none should be; it belongs in the Ex Libris profile. Leeds publishes no public developer
  documentation for these endpoints.'
humanURL: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1
tags:
- Libraries
- Discovery
- Alma
- Primo
- Ex Libris
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1100/search-resources
- type: VendorDocumentation
  url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/alma/apis/