2 devices itouch & nano

I recently got a I-touch and synched my library to it. But I am trying to figure out how to not-sync my ipod nano and just put music on it manually. I have searched the support system and cannot find the answers. The apple support has expired for the ipod nano. We read how to create a different library, but the computer sync my library to the nano, now there is music on it that I don't want, we choose to manually put music, but how do I know which music is showing..the itouch library or the music on the nano so we can take and put music on. Can someone help me?? my family doesn't understand, we are not technically savvy and very confused. How do you create another library and if we do, do we lose the music already on the nano?

Methods 2 and 3 in this article are two options http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1495

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