HT3819 How do I copy all music files that appear on one library into the library on another MAC - both on home share

My partner and I both have MACs
She copied from CD our entire CD music collection and has turned on I-Cloud.
I want to import her library to my MAC rather than copy all the CDs again.
We have Home share on
The Apple advice "In the Show menu at the bottom of the iTunes window, choose “Items not in my library.”" does not work as there is no "items not in my library" at the bottom of the show menu

iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1473
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