Sharing purchased songs or apps in family with different accounts

i've an ID apple. Can my mother use my itunes library with her own account? can she use my purchased songs or apps?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
She can import content from your library to hers on a computer, if her computer is authorised by you to play your content she can do so, but of course she cannot use your apps on her computer since they are intended for a mobile device.
She can't however sync this content to a mobile device which uses her ID for the iTunes & App stores because a mobile device can't be authorised, but instead is an associated device and devices can only be associated to one ID.

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