Can I sync my entire iTunes library to an iPad without transferring the music?

Is there any way to sync (or transfer) the iTunes library from my iMac to my iPad without copying over all the music files? I'd like to have access to the artists, albums and song titles for my entire collection on my iPad, so that I can tell at a glance what I do and don't have when buying new CDs in a music store. With thousands of CDs and 62,000 songs in my collection, it becomes difficult to keep all that data in my head.
I'd like to use the iTunes capabilities of the iPad to see my entire collection, with perhaps some sync-able subset of all those titles actually present on the device available for me to play.
I know a lot of this will eventually change, to some degree, with iCloud, but I imagine others with extensive music collections have encountered similar problems in the past.
Thanks!
John

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