Can iTunes read Two Libraries at once?

Hi,
I have a HP N40L MicroServer (I remote access from my iMac) that I want to use to serve media via iTunes to my Apple TV's. The unit has 4 HDD's. What I wanted to do was have Movies & Music on one drive, TV Shows on another and then allow back up to the spare drives. This means that I need iTunes to read two drives at once. I know that I can choose a Library but I want to select both - is this possible ?
My other option is to use Drivepool to expand the size of the drive by combining the individual HDD's (get arround Windows 2TB drive limitations) however it creates duplicate files for safety. This means my iTunes has duplicate entries.
Any ideas on this ?
Thanks

You could, for example, turn off the preference to copy files to the media folder, drag your movies to a different drive, then delete the current entries and reimport. Doug's scripts has one called Relocate Selected which can possibly make that easier to do. I've rolled my own for Windows.
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I have a few libraries stored externally, that I
don't acceess much as they have older images, and my
main current library. I was wondering whether, with
the new management scheme, it would recognize the
external libraries as source images, linked to my
main library, so that when I'm connected to the
external drive, they appear in my main library, fully
editable, but when the external is offline, they
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