As academic libraries explore their connection to student success and how library staff spend their time, it is important to understand how research consultations influence academic achievement. Several studies have found correlations between various measures of library use and grade point averages (GPAs), but only limited research has investigated the impact on student success of lengthy research consultations with a librarian. This exploratory study attempted to compare consultation users with the overall student body. Due to a small sample size, only descriptive statistics were obtained. Thus, this study also focuses on the methodological challenges of conducting student success studies in academic libraries, including the concerns associated with learning analytics, participant recruitment, sampling, and buy-in from library faculty and staff.

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展示图书馆价值的复杂性：研究咨询的探索性研究

当学术图书馆探索他们与学生成功的联系以及图书馆工作人员如何分配时间时，了解研究咨询如何影响学术成就非常重要。几项研究发现图书馆使用的各种衡量标准与平均绩点 (GPA) 之间存在相关性，但只有有限的研究调查了与图书馆员进行长时间的研究咨询对学生成功的影响。这项探索性研究试图将咨询用户与整个学生群体进行比较。由于样本量较小，仅获得了描述性统计数据。因此，本研究还关注在学术图书馆进行学生成功研究的方法论挑战，包括与学习分析、参与者招募、抽样以及图书馆教职员工的支持相关的问题。