OS X Mavericks and disabled iphoto library

After installing Mavericks OS X my iphoto library and all photos are disabled.  How do I restore the photos? I have a time machine backup from about a month ago, but am not sure how to go about uninstalling Mavericks so I can access my photos. I saw the prior discussion and documents about how to uninstall Mavericks but I am worried it is too complex for me to do.
Not sure this is the right community, so if not, please suggest an alternative
Thanks much!

Thank you. So if I copy the library to an external drive of some sort that would be one way to do it. Is it possible to copy it to another location on my Mac? If I do copy it to another location on my Mac it will still be subject to the Mavericks OS so still would not work, I am thinking. I already have photos that I cannot see since they were taken a long time ago and when I migrated them to this Mac I lost the ability to see the actual photo (I can see a dotted line on the thumbnail). I have read on the community forum about how to deal with that issue though.

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