I installed Aperture on my new mac but it doesn't see my Aperture Library

is there a way to point the app to a previously created Library?
It exists on an external drive because it is too big for my internal hard drive but I can find no command or option to open an existing library... just import my 30,000 photos all over again... and they won't fit. I found a post that concerned merging 2 libraries and I had hoped that would be the solution but the menu items mentioned aren't available to me (I'm using Aperture 1.5). When I chose "File / Import --" my only option is to import a project not the library ...it stays grayed out.
Any ideas anyone?
thanks!

thanks Tony,
I clicked on the Library and that did it .. (I never found the "switch libraries" menu item) but this worked great ...
but just to give a complete solution ... I was looking for a option to use 2 screens and decided to look in the Preferences file and at the top was an option to designate a library .. to point to one. I guess I needed to look a little harder... thanks for your time and help,
ana

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