Why is the man not able to find the book he needs?

M: Excuse me. Can you do me a favor?
W: What’s your problem?
M: I just can not find the right place here. I’ve never been here before.
W: You must be a freshman. What do you want anyway?
M: I want to find a book that I need for my term paper, but I cannot find it anywhere.
W: The library has five reading rooms. You may try the General Reading Room. You can find almost all the books there. But you can not take the book out of the reading room.
M. It doesn’t matter. I just want to refer to it for some figures. Where is it?
W: Go out of this building, cross the sports field, and you will see a white house. The General Reading Room is inside it.
M: No wonder ! It’s not here! Thank you very much.
W: My pleasure!