The following are publications and other sources of information, both local and national, that should be considered basic requirements of any careers library.
- Labour market and skills trends, Department for Education and Employment (yearly)
- Skills and enterprise executive news sheet, Skills and Enterprise Network (quarterly)
- Labour market quarterly report, Department for Education and Employment (quarterly)
- Skills and enterprise update, Skills and Enterprise Network (quarterly)
- Labour force survey quarterly bulletin, Central Statistical Office (quarterly)
- What do graduates do?, Hobsons Publishing plc (yearly)
- Directory of labour market information, Lancashire Careers Service, 1994
- Where will the new jobs be?, Institute of Careers Guidance, 1994
- Opportunity: a directory of careers and lifetime learning information, ADSET, third edition 1996
- Guide to sources of labour market data, Department for Education and Employment Statistical Services Division
- Labour market trends (incorporating the Employment Gazette), Central Statistical Office (monthly)
- Labour market reviews or assessments from your local TEC or LEC
- Labour market surveys of individual industries or occupations published by employer/training organisations
- Information from your local council's planning, research and economic development departments
- Information about school leaver destinations from your local careers services
- Information from 1991 Census of Population
- Information from 1993 Census of Employment
A recent guide to the nature, use and sources of LMI is Labour market information for further education colleges -a handbook for practitioners, prepared for the Department for Education and Employment by Pieda plc, 1995.