When you land on the Media Library, you'll be on the Dashboard:

From this screen, you can:

1. search the media library (1)
   1. enter some terms into the search box and click enter. You'll be taken to the Gallery, and your results will appear.
2. see what images have been recently added (5)
   1. This pane shows the most recently added assets, the hyperlinked file name, uploaded date and credit
3. see what images have recently been used (6)
   1. this pane shows the most recently used assets, the hyperlinked title of the article that the asset was published in, the channel it was used in, and the date it was used.
4. see the latest downloads (7)
   1. this pane shows the assets that have been recently downloaded, the hyperlinked file name, the date it was uploaded and who downloaded it.