Can 2 Macs share an iPhoto library?

Hello.
I currently work with iPhoto 6 on my iMac. I am about to buy a MacBook. Most of the time I will still use the iMac for my photos. However, sometimes I will want to do editing of photos on the MacBook. I want to keep the photo libraries on both Macs the same so they are both always up to date.
How easy is it to do this? I have an external hard drive. If I keep a copy of the photo library from one computer on there, can the other computer use it or is the photo library computer specific? Or will I just need to transfer photos individually rather than working with the whole library?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Rachel
iMac Intel 17" 1GB RAM   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   iMac G5 Rev. A; iPod nano

RachelM:
There's a way to put the source files on the external HD and each user then can have a totally independent library with their own slideshows, edits, albums, etc. That's to have the users use the alias mode (see iPhoto's Advanced preference section) and only use alias files on their boot drives. I have 17,600 image files (27 G) on my external HD and my alias based library is only 1.6G in size. Tutorial #4 describes how to set it up.
The caveats to this system are:
1 - when the laptops are on the road only the thumbnails can be viewed. Edited images can be view full size as the modified files are stored in the library folder. You cannot perform any function that requires the full sized image. You can assign keywords, comments, create albums and some other operations. Once the source files are mounted the library will function normally.
2 - any image deleted from a library will not be deleted from the source files. That will have to be done manually.
3 - new files added to the source files should be in their own folder (I date my folders) so other users can tell which are the new ones to import.
It's not for every one but does have some advantages for those will full boot drives.
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