diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index d2b31ff19b5..b23293ea500 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
     sopel
     Leo Soto <leo.soto@gmail.com>
     Wiliam Alves de Souza <wiliamsouza83@gmail.com>
+    Bjørn Stabell <bjorn@exoweb.net>
     Georgi Stanojevski <glisha@gmail.com>
     Vasiliy Stavenko <stavenko@gmail.com>
     Thomas Steinacher <http://www.eggdrop.ch/>
diff --git a/django/template/defaulttags.py b/django/template/defaulttags.py
index e41ca717e70..e23295f7326 100644
--- a/django/template/defaulttags.py
+++ b/django/template/defaulttags.py
@@ -795,7 +795,7 @@ def load(parser, token):
     for taglib in bits[1:]:
         # add the library to the parser
         try:
-            lib = get_library("django.templatetags.%s" % taglib.split('.')[-1])
+            lib = get_library("django.templatetags.%s" % taglib)
             parser.add_library(lib)
         except InvalidTemplateLibrary, e:
             raise TemplateSyntaxError, "'%s' is not a valid tag library: %s" % (taglib, e)