Anathem by Neal Stephenson ... and web librarianship?
I'm a huge Neal Stephenson fan, and early this morning I finished his recent work, Anathem.   As usual, he tackles big concepts in a big way, and not surprisingly, with implications for our information world.  The biggest takeaways are for the information world in general, with ideas about how time affects information flow, information relevance, and information importance. 

For web librarianship, the thought-sparks are interesting, but less far-reaching: his vision of the "reticulum" which might be a future, other-world variant of our Internet, and the designated class of people (Itas) who use it.  The Itas and the common folk in the book ("extramuros") all carry "jeejahs," which can be thought of as other-world descendents of our mobile devices.

In my enthusiasm for Neal, and knowing he is keen on libraries and librarians, I'm actually considering a special issue that treats connections between his ideas and web librarianship in general.  Who knows -- maybe he'd even write an introduction!