How to keep Library up-to-date?

Hello.
I deleted some mp3s from My Music folder and also added some to it. But iTunes still showes deleted items (with a ! icon) and doesn't show new items. Of course, I can manually delete them and add files from menu, but it's so tedious. Isn't there any option that make iTune automatically manage it?
Or at list isn't there any menu like "Refresh library"?

Try this to get rid of the songs:
MacMuse, "Removing "!" / dead links in iTunes library", 11:37pm Oct 8, 2004 CDT
And drag the entire folder in to add new songs.

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