Can't access itunes library on new computer???

We recently purchased a new Mac computer. Prior to this all of our music for Itunes was stored on our external hard drive. Now...when we put the external hard drive on the new computer..we cannot access any of the libraries on itunes.  If you plug in a device all of the music/apps etc show up, but when you just open the computer up and click on itunes...we have nothing in the library.
So confused on what to do...does anyone know?

See this migrate iTunes library post or Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
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