HELP!!!!!!! Moving Library To Flash Drive

I Want to move all my songs onto a flash drive to free up space on my computer. Is this possible? Thanks For Any Help

Here are another links that may help you: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751 or http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449 or http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin/7.6/en/15482.html.
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