Missing iTunes, iBooks, and iPhoto content on new hard drive

I recently bought an SSD hard drive from Crucial and had Geek Squad install it on my Macbook Pro. They also partitioned/formatted the hard drive and installed Yosemite. All good.
Since they wanted an extra $130 to add my apps, I decided to do that part myself. I had been backing up the old hard drive to an external WD hard drive via Time Machine.
I was able to add all my apps and they work perfectly.
BUT there are a few very important things missing:
     Much of my iTunes Library (none of my playlists appear; none of the items I imported from CDs; none of my MP3's of lectures and things like that);
     Most of my photos and all of my albums from iPhoto. (Only very recent photos appear; all of my albums are gone);
     All of my iBooks (but oddly, the collection names appear; when I open a collection, however, there is nothing in it.)
WHAT I HAVE (which ostensibly contains all this info in some form, but which I'm not sure how to transfer to my laptop):
     My iTunes content and iBooks are all present on my iPhone and iPad mini, but when I connected them and selected to sync these items I received a warning message: items synced from other iTunes libraries will be removed and items will be synced from ‘this’ iTunes library. Problem is, ‘this’ iTunes library, which is ostensibly mine and which is associated with my correct Apple ID, no longer contains 3/4 of my stuff.
     My external hard drive and the Time Machine backups. This was originally set up at an Apple store for me and I asked them to set it up to back up everything, so hopefully...
     I still have my old hard drive Geek Squad removed from my computer.
What is the best/easiest way for me to retrieve all these items? I read some instructions for entering Time Machine backups and restoring files, but honestly once I got in there I didn't feel too confident. The article presumed you would know how to navigate to the correct file. I don't even really understand where my missing items would be.
If I should post this in a different forum, please let me know.
Any help is appreciated.
Karen

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