Copying old macbook iphoto albums/library to macmini without wiping out current photos on macmini

Does anyone know my husband can take my Macbook iphoto library and import or copy the library (including the albums and corresponding photos) to his new macmini? He is concerned if he follows this way (see below), it will wipe out the photos already on the macmini. I guess the worst case scenairo would be for me for recreate all the albums again on the macmini but that would obviously not be ideal. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
To move an iPhoto Library to a new machine:
Link the two Macs together: there are several ways to do this: Wireless Network, Firewire Target Disk Mode, Ethernet, or even just copy the Library to an external HD and then on to the new machine...
But however you do choose to link the two machines...
Simply copy the iPhoto Library from the Pictures Folder on the old Machine to the Pictures Folder on the new Machine.
Then launch iPhoto. That's it.
This moves photos, events, albums, books, keywords, slideshows and everything else.

Simply copy the iPhoto Library
Copying does not affect the source - it duplicates it somewhere else - so this will not create any problems
And hopefully you have a backup so no matter what problems comes up (and problems will come up) you have a way to recover
LN

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