Itunes for multipule users on the same PC

Hello all, I'm new to this and would like to know if this can be done. What I would like to do is have multiple users (family members) log onto a single PC with differant user names and have the ability to use one common music libray & iTunes account. I have created multiple users and it seems like each user has a blank version of iTunes? Any ideas?
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