Can two copies of LR access the same library at the same time?

I am in a small studio with multiple Mac workstations and multiple copies of LR. We often have shoots where one person will work on photos from the reception of a wedding while another person works on the ceremony photos at the same time. So far we just export the XMP metadata to the DNG files when we are done working on one machine and import the XMP metadata of those files on the other computers to have the changes up to date.
Currently we are all using our own libraries. The only problem is that virtual copies do not transfer in this process.
Can we all use the same LR library at the same time to work on different parts of an event, and therefore all be able to see the virtual copies, collections, and other changes that we make to images including the images that we send to PSCS2 to further edit and then re-import?
Does anyone know if this will work, or will it bring about the end of the world as we know it?

Since the beta had it, under the name of "binders", it's something that's been thought out, put in, but pulled when the switch was made from collections to folders as the primary "keeper" of the images. So I feel there's good reason to expect it back at some point.
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