The city of Santa Clarita is inviting the public to witness a time capsule that will be buried at a later date under the new Old Town Library, currently under construction on Lyons Avenue.

The showing will take place Thursday, Aug. 25, at 10 a.m.

The capsule is expected to contain objects that reflect both the area’s history and a current slice-of-life.

Participants will get to see what’s going inside the capsule and sign the steel tower that will be raised to the top of the library that same morning.

Parking will be available on 11th and Spruce streets, behind the construction area.

The $25 million library will replace the much smaller library that now serves Newhall residents at 9th and Walnut streets.

The new, two-story structure will be a LEED-certified “green” building with a children’s library, teen area, technology center, community meeting room, browsing and reading lounge, homework center, express check, Friends of the Library sale area, exhibition gallery and staff work spaces on the first floor, with fiction and nonfiction collections, a reference and technology area, quiet reading space, local history displays, small group meeting rooms and a magazine reading room with a fireplace on the second floor.

It is expected to open in mid-2012.