Can I un-share certain items in my iTunes music library?

Hi all,
I am allowing music library sharing at work. But there are a couple items in my library that I don't want to share with folks. Is there a way to keep them in my library and turn them "off" so to speak?
Thanks.

Haha, not so fast! I want to share everything EXCEPT like, three pieces. There are about 2000 songs... Can I just select all and deselect the ones I don't want to share to make that playlist?

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If you're seeing the , that's generally an indication that media files (the mp3 or m4a, etc., files) were moved using Finder. They were moved or removed and the iTunes library wasn't able to keep track of where they went. If this is an old machine that she's messed around with, it can be a bit of a crap shoot trying to figure out where the stuff should go (iTunes is quite unhelpful in telling you where the music for the broken links was expected to be ... you can take some guesses, but iTunes 9 and iTunes 8 use different folder structures, so getting the stuff in the right place can be a nuisance).
Is it possible to select all the albums in this 'iTUnes Music old' folder and simply drag and drop it onto the iTunes Music folder (after making sure that the location I'm dragging and dropping to corresponds to the location for her library as specified on the advanced tab of preferences) so that the songs will be back in the default library?
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