Losing songs during sync process

I am having to recreate an iTunes library for my son. He swears the next sync will erase all of this songs. Is this true? If so, how can I prevent that from happening?

It's true, if you sync an ipod to an EMPTY library, that ipod will get erased.
However, you wrote that you are recreating an itunes library, which implies it will not be empty....the ipod would get filled with whatever is selected from the library.
I'm not sure what your situation is...
do you need to get music off the ipod?
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co mputer/P0
or are you recreating this library on a new PC?
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to -a-new-hard-drive/

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