I have two Libraries... which is the REAL one?

Hi all,
In moving from one Mac to another in the process of getting it right I seem to have ended up with two Library folders. They are located:
1. Macintich HD - System - Library
and
2. Macintosh HD - Library
Which is the real one? Which one can I delete?
Thanks,
Alex

DO NOT DELETE EITHER ONE OF THEM.
These are both valid OS X folders that your system needs to run. If you look at the contents of each, you will see that they contain different stuff.
There is also a Library folder inside each User home folder, containing things that are unique to each User.

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I have a few libraries stored externally, that I
don't acceess much as they have older images, and my
main current library. I was wondering whether, with
the new management scheme, it would recognize the
external libraries as source images, linked to my
main library, so that when I'm connected to the
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