Two Libraries one iPhoto 4.

I'm running short on space on my internal hard drive. Is it possible in iPhoto 4 to have two iphoto libraries? One iphoto library on my internal hard drive for recent and beloved photos and a second library on and external drive for older and less beloved photos? and when I plug in my external hard drive iPhoto 4 knows to read from both libraries?
Thanks.
For bonus point can I also do this with iTunes?

I don't think the iTunes instructions will work for iPhoto 4 or earlier.
Instead, drag the existing iPhoto Library folder from Pictures to the external drive. This will create a duplicate copy on the external drive. Once that is done, you can either start over with the iPhoto library on the internal disk by deleting it, or just continue using it (and delete older photos as you use them less often) -- the second method is probably preferable.
To switch between photo libraries, just follow the instructions in the iPhoto Help topic, "Switching between photo libraries".

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