How to find songs deleted from iTunes but on hard drive?

I have a very large library. My wonderful nieces "accidentally" deleted some song files from iTunes. However, the songs themselves are still on the hard drive.
Is there an easy way for iTunes to search the hard drive for music files, compare what is NOT currently in iTunes and import ONLY the missing songs?
Thank you in advance.

Check [Dougscripts|http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scriptcount.php?sortBy=Name& op=y] - Many itunes scripts
I seem to recall one that looks for files not actually in itunes, but don't remember the name of the script.
If you have itunes manage your music for you I think you could just run consolidation again and it will add media that it finds that don't already exist in your library.

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