Sharing 2 itunes librairy on an home network

Hello,
At home I have a network with several TC and AE. The notebooks and 1 iMac are connected to it as well as iPhones and iPads. On top of that I have have a Sonos system that play music in the house.
What I am trying to do is the following:
- merging two iTunes Librairies and storing them on one of the TC. On top of having some simplicity, the reason for me doing that is because at the moment when we want to play something from one of the librairy the computer need to be running (I mean not in a sleeping mode) or we need to have the librairies copied in the iPads which takes some space. I might be wrong and happy to learn something here.
- having acces to these librairy from the iPads or iPods to play music in the various rooms where the Sono system is in place.
I do appreciate that there must be a lot of infor available in the support pages for iTunes for that but first want to check the feasability and some tips to where I can find procedure to achieve the above.
Many thanks in advance for your help.
Best
Pierre

Hello
Seems I am having difficulties to get an answer. Is my message lacking clarity ? Just want to try to find some help here.
Thanks in advance.
Best
Pierre

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