IPhoto library sharing doesn't work

I have two accounts on my iMac and I wanted to make the pictures from iPhoto on one account to be visible to the other account's iPhoto. Following another post I used iPhoto's library share feature, left iPhoto running on the account with the pictures and tried to access the library from the other account's iPhoto after fast-switching to it.
The source library (the one with the pictures) is visible in the target account's iPhoto but as soon as I click on it iPhoto freezes for a couple minutes then the shared library disappears from the left panel.
I have quite a few pictures in the source library (over 15 000). Is there some limitation or something I'm missing here or is this a bug?

As a Test:
In the Source account - create a new library and try share it instead.
Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?

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