How do I find the Home/Library on a backup disk?

On my Mac laptop using Mountain Lion, the Home/Library is found by holding the Option key while selecting the GO menu. But if I want to replace a file from my backup disk (I backup with Time Machine), how do I get to the Library window to get this file? Is the Home/Library folder actually backed up on my backup disk?

~/Library is been backed up, even if it's hidden. To access to the content of that folder from the Time Machine backup, open this folder using the steps you gave in the question.
Then, just open the Time Machine app and restore the files you want. If you want to restore a file from a folder which is inside ~/Library, access to this folder and open the Time Machine app. See "Restoring data from Time Machine backups" > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
If this doesn't work, unhide the folder. To do it, open Terminal (it's in /Applications/Utilities) and type:
chflags nohidden ~/Library

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