Multiple Users on Lightroom? Or Other Solution?

I just called Adobe technical support and spoke with someone about using Lightroom to organize patient photos in a medical office. I was told that Lightroom does not support multiple users, and there is no work-around solution or plug-in for this. Can you please confirm this? I need a software to organize a photo library/catalog of appx 20K before and after photos. Multiple users (appx 3-5) need to be able to access and update the same library/catalog simultaneously. We are a Mac only office. Please help.

lrmdmedia wrote:
Multiple users (appx 3-5) need to be able to access and update the same library/catalog simultaneously.
Lightroom is the wrong tool for the job - consider Bridge instead.
At the risk of stating the obvious: no matter which way you go (software-wise), you (your team, I mean) need to make sure one person isn't stompling on what another has done (or preventing access denial when it's needed).
That said, many have come up with Lightroom-based solutions that support some people working on one set of photos (or same set of photos, but different metadata/settings), whilst another team member works on a different set (or same set, but not same settings/metadata). - whether any of these ad-hoc solutions would be acceptable to you, I can't say.
But most of them involve using catalog export/import, or xmp, and/or reserving exclusive (master) catalog access temporarily...
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