How about some Wi-Fi with those books?

Beginning later this month, New York City residents will be able to check out portable wireless Internet hubs free of charge at their local library branch, city officials said.

The program, expected to be announced Tuesday, will offer about 10,000 Wi-Fi units through branches of the New York Public Library, the Queens Library and the Brooklyn Public Library, funded partly with a $1 million donation from Google Inc.

The initiative marks the city’s latest attempt to bring municipal Wi-Fi to the five boroughs, following an announcement last month that the city plans to turn some 6,000 city pay phones into stationary wireless hot spots.

The latest program also continues the New York Public Library’s digitization under President Anthony Marx, who has increased the number of e-books the public library offers. The New York Public Library has branches in Manhattan, Staten Island and the Bronx.