Multiple access to a single library

Hi Can anyone help me?
I have one pc at home with with separate windows user accounts for my kids. We have an ipod shuffle each with all of our music stored in the library under my user account. How do I make the library available to them to use under thier logins. At the moment when they login on their accounts and launch itunes it asks them to sync with a new library.
Thanks
pb

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