The paper examined human resources management and job performance of Academic Librarians in Tertiary Institutions in Rivers State. It adopted the qualitative approach in which academic materials were sought from the journals, internet, books and physical interactions.  It based its discussion on three dimensions of human resources management including manpower planning, professional ethics and pedagogy skills of library academics which indicates a sine-qanon to employee job performance in tertiary institutions in Rivers State.  The paper adopted Knowledge Resource Strategy theory by Grant which philosophy aligns with the knowledge generation and transmission of the paper.  It concluded that human resource management remains a veritable means of ensuring library academics perform in their roles through the effective implementation of manpower planning, pedagogy skills and professional ethics. The paper hinged that management has the responsibility of planning library academics in order to ensure effective job performance in their jobs. It is summed that any half-way planned library academics would breed poor outcome. The paper suggested that there is need for management to engage in intermittent training and retraining of library academics in contemporary pedagogy skills, library academics should imbibe professional ethics in their teaching, attitude and conducts and that Management should ensure adequate and prompt manpower planning of library academics to encourage continuous job performance of library academics in tertiary institutions in Rivers State. 

Keywords: Library Academics, Job performance, Tertiary Institutions, Ethics, Pedagogy, Manpower-planning, Human Resource Management.