How to share a library with two apple id's?

We have one library on the iMac. And only 1 computer - so home sharing is not the solution.
My husband and I each have our own Apple id and iphones. How does he get access to our library as we have only one as he is a new Apple user. Where am I meant to save the library so he can log in under his User name on the iMac and then open iTunes and see the same library that I open?
Many thanks.

You should continue to use your old ID for iTunes, if you don't you will have difficulties using your purchased content.
You can use either the new or the old ID for iCloud, iCloud is just a sync service so you won't actually lose anything by using one or the other.
If you'd prefer to use the same ID for both and your contact and calendar info is in your iCloud account using your new ID, you can always transfer that data to the other account and delete the new account altogether.

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