Libraries in distance education universities such as Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada, are faced with special difficulties when seeking ways to reach out to their students to expand their understanding of libraries as information sources and provide them with the skills to tap library and other information sources. However, developments in communications and computer technology appear to provide some answers to the problem of bridging the distance gap in the areas of bibliographic instruction, reference and information services, and document delivery. For example, video technology in the form of cassettes or discs would seem to offer the most viable means of bibliographic instruction at the present time. Possibilities for reference and information services include access to the library's online public access catalog (OPAC) via the student's home or office microcomputer or through regional offices and cooperating institutions. The provision of information services via telefacsimile and electronic publishing is a further consideration, but impediments to the use of this option may exist in the forms of copyright issues, accessibility problems, and expense. Nevertheless, the electronic library is the natural form for distance education library services, and it is important to begin to prepare the groundwork for the use of new technological applications in library services. (Author/KM)