Victoria University of Wellington

Te Waharoa Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma tenancy)

Te Waharoa is the library's discovery service, running on Ex Libris Primo backed by Alma on the institution's own subdomain tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz, which CNAMEs to victoria.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Public discovery view VID 64VUW_INST:VUWNUI, Alma institution code 64VUW_INST. It exposes a genuinely callable, keyless SRU 1.2 interface: an anonymous searchRetrieve on 2026-08-30 returned HTTP 200 and 20,136 matching records in MARCXML, and the explain response enumerates the full Alma index set. This is the largest anonymously callable interface associated with the institution — and the contract behind it is Ex Libris's product, identical for every Alma customer, so it is recorded as a tenancy and not saved here.

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Documentation
https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/how-to-use-the-library/searching-for-resources

Other Resources

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x-sru-explain
https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/view/sru/64VUW_INST?version=1.2&operation=explain
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Website
https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/discovery/search?vid=64VUW_INST:VUWNUI

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: victoria-university-of-wellington:te-waharoa-discovery
name: Te Waharoa Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma tenancy)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'Te Waharoa is the library''s discovery service, running on Ex Libris Primo backed by Alma
  on the institution''s own subdomain tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz, which CNAMEs to victoria.primo.exlibrisgroup.com.
  Public discovery view VID 64VUW_INST:VUWNUI, Alma institution code 64VUW_INST. It exposes a genuinely
  callable, keyless SRU 1.2 interface: an anonymous searchRetrieve on 2026-08-30 returned HTTP 200 and
  20,136 matching records in MARCXML, and the explain response enumerates the full Alma index set. This
  is the largest anonymously callable interface associated with the institution — and the contract behind
  it is Ex Libris''s product, identical for every Alma customer, so it is recorded as a tenancy and not
  saved here.'
humanURL: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/how-to-use-the-library/searching-for-resources
baseURL: https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/view/sru/64VUW_INST
tags:
- Library
- Discovery
- SRU
- MARCXML
- Primo
- Alma
- Ex Libris
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/how-to-use-the-library/searching-for-resources
- type: x-sru-explain
  url: https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/view/sru/64VUW_INST?version=1.2&operation=explain
- type: Website
  url: https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/discovery/search?vid=64VUW_INST:VUWNUI