Storage location external & internal drive

Hello,
I need to place my iTunes Lib on a external drive as size is too big for flash of new MBP.
Is it possible that some selected Musik (e.g. playlist) that is also stored automaticly on internal drive of MBP?
So on tour, least this is still available from iTunes... Sure I can manually export seem files, but I wanted to keep the luxury of using iTunes...
Same topic for iPhoto is there also an option.
Or how do you handle it?

Hello Jim,
also thanks for quick reply.
So only approach today is two have two libs, and moving files between libs, I thing there are some 3rd party tools available to simplify.
Best would be if e.g. a selected playlist is automaticly stored on main drive as duplicate (all rest on itunes folder e.g. ext. drive), but seems more as a feature request to R&D Apple
Aperture or Lightroom has that in similar way...

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