ABSTRACT
This chapter defines and briefly synthesises the origins and goals of autoethnography. We review the burgeoning rise of interest in and application of autoethnography across the human sciences, advocate for the use of autoethnography as a research method in the library and information science (LIS) and demonstrate how to begin an evocative autoethnographic project. At its best, autoethnography is a form of vulnerable writing about lived experiences that connects with and engages readers in ways that resonate with their own lives. Using Lisa's experience of grieving, the loss of a best friend to cancer as an entry and case in point, the authors weave together story and theory to show how a researcher can produce an evocative and healing autoethnographic story that expresses the unfolding of the lived experience of grief in ways unlikely to be achieved in traditional forms of research.
