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

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/te-waharoa-discovery/  
**Provider:** Victoria University of Wellington — https://apis.io/providers/victoria-university-of-wellington/  
**Base URL:** https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/view/sru/64VUW_INST  
**Documentation:** https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/how-to-use-the-library/searching-for-resources

Te Waharoa Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma tenancy) is one of 10 APIs that [Victoria University of Wellington](https://apis.io/providers/victoria-university-of-wellington/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Library, Discovery, SRU, MARCXML, and Primo. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/how-to-use-the-library/searching-for-resources
- **x-sru-explain** — https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/view/sru/64VUW_INST?version=1.2&operation=explain
- **Website** — https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/discovery/search?vid=64VUW_INST:VUWNUI

## Other Victoria University of Wellington APIs (9)

- [Website Global Object](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/website-global-object/)
- [Shibboleth Identity Provider (Tuakiri / eduGAIN)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/identity-federation/)
- [Institutional Repository (self-hosted DSpace)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/institutional-repository/)
- [Open Access Repository (Figshare tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/open-access-repository-figshare/)
- [Nuku Learning Management (Instructure Canvas tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/nuku-canvas-lms/)
- [Research Information System (Symplectic Elements tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/symplectic-elements/)
- [Enterprise Single Sign-On (WSO2 Identity Server)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/enterprise-sso-wso2/)
- [Student Records (Ellucian Banner Self-Service tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/student-records-banner/)
- [Microsoft Entra ID Tenant (production browser sign-on)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/entra-id-federation/)

## Tags

Library, Discovery, SRU, MARCXML, Primo, Alma, Ex Libris, Tenant

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