 Meet Moose. He's a therapy dog at Cook Counseling Center, and he's looking for information on therapy dogs. He finds a book called Animal-Assisted Therapy in Counseling and wants to check it out. From Discovery Search, he can see that it's in Newman Library on the third floor. The call number is listed, which tells him everything he needs to find the book. Let's go with him to get it. First, he heads up to the third floor. Call numbers are displayed horizontally in Discovery Search, but vertically on the book spine. And it can be easy to see the parts of the call number when they're displayed vertically rather than horizontally. Let's start with the first part, the letters R-C. Once Moose is on the third floor, he uses the tags on the end of each shelf to find the R's and then the R-C's. Now he can move on to the second part of the call number, 489. This number will also be displayed on the tags at the end of the shelves. It looks like he's found the right one. These numbers are read as numbers, so R-C489 would come after R-C450 and before R-C500. Now we can move on to the next part of the call number, P-47. This part of the call number is arranged alphabetically and then numerically, so for instance, the L's come before the P's. For the numbers, read them like decimals. P-47 comes before P-7. This call number has a second letter and number combination, although not all call numbers will. Read this one in the same way as the one before. The last piece of the call number is the year. It looks like Moose has found the one he was looking for. To check it out, he heads down to the services desk on the second floor of Newman. In libraries other than Newman, head to the main services desk. To check it out, all Moose needs is his hokey passport. But what if Moose didn't have time to find the book himself or wanted to pick it up at another Virginia Tech library? Let's go back to when he found the item in Discovery Search. In Discovery Search, Moose could click on Place a Hold. From here, he could log into his library account using two-factor authentication and request that the book be sent to Newman or one of our branch libraries. Then, when his book is ready, all he would have to do is go to the services desk, ask for the book, and check it out. Happy reading, Moose. Remember that if you have any questions about finding a book, you can always ask a librarian for help.