Once you have a list of items owned by your library, their call numbers,
and identified the location of items not in the regular stacks, your next
step is to retrieve those items.
Call numbers are the way you do this because they tell you the specific
place and the specific shelf on which an item should be found. Like street
numbers for houses, call numbers tell you where to find something.
Items in specialized collections are also in call number sequence and they
may have a location code at the beginning of the call number.
The
Using Call Numbers module
contains links to web documents which explain in detail how to read call numbers.