Research and library project management: the case of the automatic cataloging (DIC) contains a Spanish idea of ​​the early nineties, original and innovative, to achieve an autonomous and automatic cataloging added to documents (books, videos, CDs, prints, etc.), designed by Carmen Carrera and Carlos Díez González Ruiz, patented and awarded on several occasions. He earned the silver medal in the XXIII Salon International des Inventions in Geneva in 1995, and the First Prize Ideas for Spin-off of Researchers in the area of ​​Information Technology and Communications, awarded by the Autonomous Community of Madrid, in 2003.Investigación and project management in library: the case of the automatic cataloging (DIC) also aims to expose a methodology in the area of ​​library and information science, shape the practical experience of several research projects and collect principles and concepts from the readings that led to the book informative units Administration, published by the same publisher in 2002, applied to the field of automatic cataloging.