Around that time Asplund turned her attention towards establishing a system of free traveling libraries in New Mexico.

In 1911 she joined the New Mexico Federation of Women’s Clubs (NMFWC) and served on the library extension committee almost continually through 1929.

A leader in the suffrage movement in New Mexico, she wrote in an editorial for "The Outlook" in 1927, "...we have found the suffrage of great assistance to women in speeding up the program of welfare work which was started by their organizations more than ten years ago...we knew exactly what we wanted and we got it.

[2] She was a member of numerous civic organizations and social clubs, including the New Mexico Commission on Welfare of Women and Children, Commissioner of Management Santa Fe Public Library, the Santa Fe Woman's Club, and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

[1] Asplund was one of six New Mexican suffragists named in a February 2020 memorial bill of the New Mexico legislature titled "Centennial Of 19th Amendment", along with Laura E. Frenger, Nina Otero-Warren, Ina Sizer Cassidy, Deane Lindsey, and Aurora Lucero.