User accounts and access to iTunes

I recently set up several user accounts on my Mac so that each family member will have their own preferences and files without interfering with mine. I am the only one with Administrator privileges, the others have Standard privileges. Now, the new user accounts can no longer access my iTunes library, and their individual iTunes libraries are totally empty. I would like for them to have access to my library, or, alternatively, I need a quick and easy way to transfer (copy) titles or music folders from my library to theirs.

This page may be of some help: iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer

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