Do I need to start a new account?

Have used one account for years so two teenagers could buy iTunes songs and videos. Now they are older and I just got an iPad. Looks like I am picking up my daughters contacts and calendar on my iPad. We're all using one account. Time for separate accounts or is there a way around this? If new account how do I do that for my daughter without disrupting her things?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
To begin with, I would like to try to explain Apple's confusing nomenclature in regard to iCloud.
Apple have called the whole cloud thing iCloud, there are a number of features under the iCloud umbrella, some of which require their own login. iTunes is one of these, another is what Apple have unfortunately also called iCloud.
You can use the same Apple ID (account) to login to both iCloud and iTunes, but you don't need to and often users will login to each service using a different ID.
The part that you need to remember is that the services available when you log into iCloud are completely different and unrelated to those when you log in to iTunes. Your iCloud login enables mail, contacts, calendars, find my phone, Back to My Mac, Documents & Data sharing and photosstream, it does not affect any of your iTunes services.
To avoid confusion when discussing your problem, when I mention iCloud, I am referring to the services under the iCloud login, Whereas I will refer to the whole cloud thing as The Cloud.
I believe your solution would be for each member of the family to create their own account (Apple ID) and use it with iCloud, but continue to use the existing ID for iTunes.

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