The Gould Library has rich collections of books, journals, government documents, and other resources. You may access them via Catalyst, the online catalog for Carleton and St. Olaf. You may search Catalyst by title, author, subject, or word.
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Call Numbers and Subject Headings
Cosmology books are shelved under QB 980 - QB 991 in the Library of Congress classification system.
Library of Congress Subject Headings are the words and phrases that you will use to do a subject search in Catalyst (as opposed to a keyword search, where you may use any words you like). Cosmology and Astronomy are both Library of Congress Subject Headings. If you are looking for books about cosmological traditions, try combining the religious tradition and the word cosmology, e.g. Jewish cosmology or a cosmology and a culture, e.g. cosmology, chinese.