Are librarians faculty?

I had brunch with some tenured Enligsh professors today, somehow we got to talking about whether or not librarians should be considered faculty (in an academic/college library).

Their feeling was that, if there is no library degree being offered, they are not really teaching. They didn't consider the brief classroom instruction performed by the librarians to be sufficient. They said they have no problem with librarians being entitled to equal pay/tenure typed stuff, but that the title of faculty was not appropriate for the profession.