ITunes multiple libraries - how?

Like many people, I’m looking forward to buying the new iPodTouch. I’ll be getting the 16GB model, but before I do I have a question regarding iTunes.
I have a large music collection, about 50GB, which fills up my current 5th generation iPod (plus a bit of room for video and photos).
Now, I use iTunes as my music player on my MacBook Pro. It has all my music beautifully organised and works great. Whenever I get some new music, I load it into iTunes, synch it to my thrd generation iPod, and away I go.
BUT, when I buy the new 16GB iPodTouch, iTunes is going to copy only a fraction of my music library. The rest won’t fit on it.
What I need, therefore, are 2 music libraries. One, the main one, will contain ALL my music, for use on my MacBook Pro. The other will contain about 10GB of my favourite stuff to go on my iPodTouch (plus photos and videos).
My question is, how do I create TWO music libraries to do this task? TWO SEPARATE LIBRARIES, which won’t interfere with each other? So, when I connect my iPodTouch, it won’t automatically synch the first 10GB of songs in my 60GB library. It will synch ONLY to my specific 10GB library.
I don’t want, and shouldn’t need to, create a hard disk partition to separate my full library from my selected library by installing TWO copies of iTunes. This problem must be one faced by many users of the new iPhone, who only have 8GB of space for their music but who want to keep ALL their music in iTunes.
There must be an easy way to do this. Any ideas?

You don't even need to set up a second library. You can sync mor than one ipod to the same library and each iPod can be synced in its own way. So you can sync just specific playlist to the new iPod or even manually manage it while the other iPod sync everything automatically.
How to use multiple iPods with one computer
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300432
Using iPod with multiple computers
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61675
Managing content manually on iPod
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60920
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first all thanks for any help that is provided....
my situation is this:
i have a MBP w/ an 80 gb HD. i have about 80-100 GB of videos and another 30GB of music that i would like to be able to store on my Apple tv and Ipod. i first tried using an external HD to store it all, but ITunes would change my music folder path on me.
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or anyone have any suggestions on how i can do this?

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