Is there a way to move iphoto libary to external but still use on orginal hard drive?

Basically what I want to do is move my pictures from my laptop's hard drive to an external because I have so many and then keep using iphoto on my laptop but without all the older photos on it. I don't want to have to plug my external in every time I want to transfer pictures from my camera to my laptop. I wasn't sure what the best way to do this was? Or if this was even possible?
I'm using iPhoto '09 verzion 8.1.2 if that makes any difference?
Thanks! Any help is greatly appreciated.

Here's one way to do what you want:
1. Quit iPhoto.
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the external drive.
Now you have two full copies of the Library. To choose between them: Hold down the <b>option (or alt)</b> key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'
3. On the Internal Library, remove the pics you don't want with you all the time.
Now you have one full library on the external and another smaller sub-set on the Internal.
A couple of comments:
a. The external disk needs to be formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
b: When you're removing the unwanted pics from the Internal Library you need to delete them in batches of about 100 or so. Trashing more at one time can cause problems with the database.
c.
Managing Multiple Libraries - including moving pics/albums/rolls and metadata between them - is greatly facilitated by using iPhoto Library Manager

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