Managing 2 ITunes libraries on one computer

My husband and I share a computer; how can we both want to sync our ITunes to the computer without overwriting each other's tunes?

That's using one user account and switching between 2 iTunes accounts, you need two user accounts.
By user accounts I mean accounts on the computer where each user logs in and accesses only their content (which includes everything, not just iTunes)

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