Can I Import elements 5 catalog/library into Lightroom 3.4?

I have been using Photoshop Elements 5 for awhile.  I would like to import my catalog into Lightroom 3.4.  There doesn't seem to be a way to do so.  There is no entry on the dropdown "File" menu relating to Elements Catalogs, despite information on the Adobe webste that says there is.  Can I do this?
Also, it isn't clear from the instructions whether "Library" and "Catalog" are used interchangeably in Lightroom or if there's a difference.  Do the two terms mean the same thing?

If you look at the help page, which is here
you will see that you require PSE 6 and later on windows, PSE 9 on osx, in order to convert a PSE catalog into a LR one. I assume you can get a trial of PSE, whatever the latest version is, use this to update your PSE catalog and then import it into LR.
The catalog is the full database, this is a file saved on your computer that ends in .lrcat this contains all the data relvent to the files imported into the catalog.
The library is the panel within LR that you use to view, add metadata, create collections etc. with LR itself, so they are not interchangeable terms in LR, unfortunately some users will refer to the catalog when they mean the Library and visa versa to the confusion of all.

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