At the beginning of each month, ask the Systems Librarian for the withdrawn statistics for the previous month. You will receive an Excel file with the information that contains every item that has been withdrawn from Sirsi for that month. This will include said information from all departments.
Save the spreadsheet file to your computer.
Open up Tableau Public. Open the file that you just received. To do that, click on the format of the file that you just received. It should be an Excel file.
Next, your new screen should look similar to below.
Now, on the bottom left of the screen, click on Sheet1.
This will open a blank document that should like this -
The dimensions are the information that you will drag and drop into the appropriate rows and columns.
