[2] He led a number of key information companies as they evolved from print, to microfilm, to mainframe, to CD-ROM and then eventually to web based databases.
Power, the founder of UMI, acknowledged Asleson's pioneering role in setting up sales and marketing for the company.
The company later became ProQuest, It remains one of the largest vendors in the field with revenues in excess of $350m (2010) and more than 2 billion pages of archival materials.
At that time it was close to becoming the world's largest commercial producer of microfilm with nearly 3 million feet of material.
an electronic publisher of research databases in history, documents, scholarly reference and classical studies.
[7] He was a member of the board of the National Micrographics Association (now part of AIIM), where he received a Distinguished Service Award in 1977.
[9] He wrote and lectured extensively on the evolution of the information industry and in particular on the transition from micropublishing to electronic databases.