After assuming her post, Lin discovered to her surprise that the Academia Historica's official summary of its own history only begins with its reestablishment in Taiwan in 1957. The period from 1912 (when it was founded at the start of the ROC) to 1949 (when the ROC government relocated to Taiwan) was entirely ignored.
就職館長後，林滿紅驚訝地發現，國史館的館史簡介裡，竟只從「1957 年在台復館」說起，1912 年民國成立到 1949 年政府遷台之間的創館歷史，反而隻字未提。