Importing / opening second Iphoto library

Hello
a friend of mine backed up his pictures in a Iphoto Library but does not have a mac anymore so he asked me if I can open it for him and move the pictures on a harddrive. but when i double click his photo Library mine opens up and not his how can we open his library to display the pictures

With iPhoto '08 double clicking on the iPhoto library opens iPhoto which then opens the last used library - to change libraries depress the option (alt) key and launch iPhoto and use the select library function - once you open your friend's library select the photos you want for him and export them (file menu==> export) to a desktop folder and burn that folder to disk for use with a non-Mac (using the share ==> burn - or burn icon - creates a library to use with a Mac - not another computer)
You will have to do the Option launch again to switch back to your main library
LN
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