If you can't actually find the book...

... here are the possible explanations (and what to do about it)

• it could be out on loan (so check the catalogue to see if someone else has borrowed it)



• it could be on a desk being used in the library, without the reader having actually borrowed it (if you let us know, one of us will try to locate it)



• it could be on a re-shelving trolley, so do check the trolleys. The re-shelving trolleys should contain only books from the floor that they are on, and also only books from the particular side of the floor that they are on i.e. the trolley on the middle floor should only have books from the middle floor



• it could be in one of the plastic crates distributed throughout the library for browsed but unborrowed books



• it could be slightly out of place on the shelf (it's worth checking the shelves near to where it should be)



• it could be missing (in which case we will buy another copy - but you will need to ask us to)



• it could be that we never had a copy. If this is the case, there would of course be no holding showing in SOLO for Wadham College Library. (If you ask us to - and we hope you will! - we will buy a copy, subject to the tutor's approval)