ITunes with multiple users

Hi, I have a friend that just bought a mac mini. He is going to set up Multiple user accounts on it but he wants all of the users to be able to use the same itunes Library. How does he set this up. Does he put the libary in the shared folder?

This should help:
iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer
Note that when it says "publicly accessible location", it needs to be a place where everyone has read and write access. The most common such place is the Shared folder in the Users folder.

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