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Recently more than 80,000 volumes from Keio University were deposited into HathiTrust.  These materials dramatically increase HathiTrust’s Japanese-language holdings.  Keio University will be providing more information about the materials included in the deposit in coming weeks.  The volumes represent the largest deposit in HathiTrust of materials from a non-partner institution.  Many of these titles are full-text rare materials, and are copyright cleared.  34,415 titles (20,065 in full-view) have been loaded so far.  For a quick look at these volumes have a look at http://bit.ly/1gmFNw2.