Album to library?

Using iPhoto 8.1 on an iMac with 10.6.8. I use it routinely, and it works great. In one of my libraries, I've made an album. How do I take just that album and make an independent library out of it? Yes, I could just export all the photos, and reimport them in a new library, but when I do that, the "description" text that I've painstakingly added to each of the album photos doesn't port with the photos. I'd like the new library that I create from the album to include those descriptions. How do I do that??

OK, I figured it out. It's pretty easy. I just have to take my original album of 50 photos, and using that, make them into 3 albums of 20, 20, and 10 photos -- album1, album2, and album3. Then I make a new library, and use free iPhoto Library Manager to drop each of those 3 albums into it. They appear as individual "Events". Then I go into that library, in "Photos", and drag all the photos into the same "Event", just to clean things up. Finally, I remove those three albums. Presto. A new library containing those 50 photos in one event.

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I think it's been happening ever since they brought in iTunes version 9, as far as I can remember it worked perfectly well before that.
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Do this for each album.
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David Schwartz, "Missing All Albums in iPhoto 5", 07:49pm Aug 26, 2005 CDT

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