Steam family sharing question....

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Am I correct in thinking that I can set up a new Steam account for my son and then share my entire library of games with him so he can play (and save progress, earn achievements etc) under his own account?

Assuming this is correct however, the way I read it is that only one of us can be logged in to the library at any one time? (ie. If he's mid-game and I log in, he gets booted?)

Ideally I want him to have his own account to play a game for him, like Slime Rancher, while I play my games - I presume this isn't possible under the family sharing facility and I'd need to buy the game again under his account?
 
Right, so I can create a Steam ID for him, share my games library and we can both be logged on at the same time as long as we don't want to play the same game at the same time?
 
Well that's disappointing! :(

I was hoping we could both be logged in at the same time as long as we weren't playing the same game!
 
You can play offline.

That's what I do with my girlfriend.
I just play games offline when she's using my library

The trouble is I'm the one that needs to be online and it doesn't seem to work that way!

You CAN be. As long as you each have a separate steam account, and don't play the same game at the same time; you will both be fine.

I tried earlier, my son was on Slime Rancher on the laptop while logged in to his Steam account and I logged in to mine on the desktop and booted up 7 Days to Die and a message popped up on the laptop saying they had 5 minutes before it logged him out!?!?
 
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