Is Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Elements better?

Hi,
I am testing out a free trial of Adobe Lightroom and I am attempting to figure out if it is too advanced of a program for my purposes.
I have MANY, MANY images on a server, and when I want to organize these images into different categories, I have to make a separate folder on the server (because I have to leave the images all in their original place on the server as well). Thus, I am ending up with the same image in two places... which takes up a LOT of space on my server!
I am looking for software that can allow me to curate images pulled from my server into different buckets, and deliver those images to people using an FTP site. Is Adobe Lightroom good for this purpose, or am I going to be investing in something that does far more than I need it for?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best,
Meredith

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Some people like one over the other. Lightroom does pretty well handling, cataloging, sorting, filtering, and separating large numbers of images. That's really what it's Library module is for. But it has a lot of other functionality not used for just that - the other four modules.

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Nowhere in my files do I have a file that is just called Adobe Elements 11.
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