[roymurdock]

There are some great tutorials on Lynda. You can try it free for 10 days, which is more than enough time to get up and running with Lightroom. You shouldn't need more than 3 hours of watching videos and few more hours uploading, editing, and looping through photos to have basic proficiency. The most useful parts of the tutorial in my opinion are best practices on how and where to save photos. A lot of the development stuff can be picked up easily by playing around with the sliders and watching other online tutorials.

http://www.lynda.com/Lightroom-training-tutorials/450-0.html