All of my music has disappeared from my library! Help please!

So I get onto my family's home computer to update my iPod when my whole library is empty. I've looked all over the web for help but for some reason my iPod won't appear in the My Computer folder. I had music that I had purchaced from the iTunes store that is also missing, which I was hoping I could rescue.
I have a 1st generation nano, 9.0 iTunes, and a have a Windows XP computer, if that helps any.
I hope you all can help me! I'm kind of a newbie with iTunes stuff. D:

the same exact thing just happened to me and im about to lose my mind...how do you fix this ? I just wanted to update it I just lost over 300 songs from my choir's music!!! help please ..anyone!!!!

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