How did you come to this conclusion about patterns of usage? I'd think the typical user/consumer would more likely have 1000 mp3 files rather than 1000 personally authored Microsoft Word documents (or Photoshop PSD files, etc.)
What about another common usage such as digital camera photos? The digital camera (or iPhone) has jpg "files". How would the user mentally translate the "files" living on a FAT32 flash card and copy them to your "Library Items" storage system? Do they keep 2 mental models of storage paradigms in their head? If your proposal includes a driver/wrapper for hiding the FAT32 file inside the concept of "library item", it seems like you're just renaming "files" to "library items". It's more a shift in terminology rather than shift in paradigm as a sibling comment already noted.
The filesystems in an operating system (NTFS, ext3, etc) are already implemented as special purpose databases. The "rows" are file id entries and they each point to the "blobs" which are the file contents. Whatever you propose to build has to reimplement this underlying "database" as well. Whether you call the rows of that database "files" or "library items" or "objects" or "documents", it isn't going to revolutionize the approach.