Multiple users/libraries

We have five different users on this computer (family) and we all have ipods. Question is, we all like a lot of the same music, yet up until now, we've each downloaded the same CD's over and over again, to put them on our own itunes libraries. Seems to me that this is taking up way too much space on the computer. Is there a better way to do this? There must be....thanks....
All 7 of our ipods are listed below....thanks!
~~Mara
Power Mac G5   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   3: 60G ipods, 1: 4G nano, 2:10G ipods, 1: 1G shuffle

If you want to share the one library, you can set either or all of the iPods so that they only get updated with only certain playlists (you can update from more than one if you wish):
Loading songs onto iPod automatically - Mac
Choosing the update option "Sync Music - Selected playlists" allows you to create a playlist specifically for the iPod and drag the tracks you want into it. If you tire of the list and want to change it, you just add or remove the songs you don't want. The ones you take out out remain in the library to be used some other time if you choose. You can read more about playlists at these links:
iTunes: Creating playlists of your favorite songs
How to create a Smart Playlist with iTunes
Or you can choose to update any or all of the iPods manually and just drag whatever content you want to them: Managing content manually on iPod
Loading the iPod shuffle differs slightly but it can still be used with the others, for details have a look at this page:
Loading songs onto iPod shuffle - Mac
It's also possible to have multiple libraries in a single Mac user account. To create or access a second (or more) library, hold down the Option key when launching iTunes 7. In the resulting dialogue you will get the option to create a new library or navigate to the other Library.
Note: You can only have one Library open at a time and iTunes will default to the last library opened if you don't use the keyboard command to choose one. This can prove tricky when using multiple iPods, if you don't use the keyboard command you can risk syncing to the wrong library:
Using multiple iTunes libraries -Mac

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