Town leaders in Avalon and Ocean City are singing the blues precisely because their libraries are in the black, reports the Inquirer's Maria Panaritis. They say the extravagant Shore real estate market, combined with an age-old state law requiring that a fixed percentage of local taxes go to libraries, has created piles of unspendable cash. They want the ability to transfer surplus bucks away from books and onto the municipal ledger, even as libraries around the state struggle for adequate funding.
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