Moving photos from one library to another (v7.1.5)

Hi. I'm currently using iPhoto 7.1.5. I had my iPhoto library on an external drive. I experienced problems with that drive and had to purchase a new one. In the meantime, I uploaded new photos to iPhoto in a library that resides on my internal hard drive. I've since successfully copied the photos from the bad external drive to a new external drive. Now I need to move the photos that are in the Library on my computer to the Library on the new external disk. I want to have all my photos in one place and I want the Library on the external disk to essentially be the only library. I will then create a back up of that onto another external disk so I don't lose anything.
I have very limited internal disk space and have about 8,000 photos that I need to move.
Thank you in advance.

File -> Export to the FInder, then import them to the other Library.
If you want to preserve versions and metadata etc then you'll need to use iPhoto Library Manager

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