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The study examined the essentiality of motivation in enhancing the effectiveness of librarians in Nigerian public universities. It adopted correlation survey research design. Its population consisted of 1,254 librarians in public university libraries in Nigeria, from which 923 were selected using simple random sampling. The research instrument used was a self-developed questionnaire. The study revealed that motivation is necessary in enhancing job performance of librarians in public university libraries in Nigeria. It concluded that contrary to general belief, motivation level of librarians in university libraries was high. It was recommended that university library management should continue to promote values such as improved employee recognition, good leadership style and improved employees? motivational programmes that would increase productivity of its workforce.

The general opinion was that human resources development and job performance of library staff in academic library in Ekiti State, Nigeria was low and a cause for concern. This paper investigated the relationship between human resources development and job performance of library staff in three selected academic library, Ekiti State, Nigeria. A total enumeration sampling techniques and survey research design was adopted. The study population consisted of 100 library staff in the three selected academic libraries in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The research instrument used was a self-developed questionnaire titled "Human resource development as correlate of job performance in three selected academic libraries, Ekiti State, Nigeria". The questionnaire validation was subjected to experts in the areas of the variables studied; it gave a reliability coefficient of 0.75 for Human Resource Development; and 0.78 for Job Performance. A response rate of 100% was achieved. Data were analysed using descriptive (percentage, mean, average mean and standard deviation) and inferential (Pearson Product Moment Correlation, and Cross tabs) statistics. The study revealed a significant relationship between human resource development and job performance (r = 0.000c, N = 100, P < 0.05) of library staff in the selected academic library in, Ekiti State, Nigeria. The study concluded that contrary to general belief, human resource development and job performance levels of library staff in academic library were high. It is recommended that management should continue to promote values such as improved library staff recognition, library staff training programmes and effective use of human resource academic libraries that would increase human resource development and job performance of its workforce. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]