How do you organize multiple libraries?

Last year, I kept one big giant library for every 6 months. This consisted of a terabyte of images per library.
I have always feared a library becoming corrupted and being unable to successfully restore the images.
Do people keep smaller libraries?
I am thinking of starting a new library every month. Does this seem like a good idea? or a waste?
Lastly, do people keep the actual images not stored in the aperture library itself in case you need to get to the original file if something were to happen to the library?
Thanks!

My biggest objection to multiple Libraries is that you then can't search for anything except the 'current' images, but I'm doing a lot of DAM tasks with Aperture as well as normal processing.
I mostly use referenced files, but that's because I'm usually working on a MBP which simply doesn't have the room to store all the files.
Ian
P.S. Don't worry too much about corrupted Libraries - your images aren't being stored in a binary database file, they are in a 'package' - in other words it's a special kind of folder which you can access by Control-clicking on it in the Finder and choosing 'Show Package Content'. You can then do a Spotlight search in the folder and find all your image - doesn't matter if the DB is corrupt, you don't even need Aperture on the machine.

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