diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+**_THIS REPOSITORY IS DEPRECATED. ALL OF ITS CONTENT AND HISTORY HAS BEEN MOVED TO [GOOGLE-CLOUD-JAVA](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-java/tree/main/java-spanner)_**
+
 # Google Cloud Spanner Client for Java
 
 Java idiomatic client for [Cloud Spanner][product-docs].
diff --git a/owlbot.py b/owlbot.py
index 5765d1df17..6c654ed80a 100644
--- a/owlbot.py
+++ b/owlbot.py
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
         ".kokoro/build.sh",
         ".kokoro/dependencies.sh",
         ".kokoro/requirements.in",
-        ".kokoro/requirements.txt"
+        ".kokoro/requirements.txt",
+        "README.md"
     ]
 )